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Example sentences for "flowage"

Lexicographically close words:
flout; flouted; flouting; flouts; flow; flowe; flowed; flowen; flower; flowerage
  1. Then the logs which had raced in the rapids came to the upper reaches of the slow deadwater of the flowage of the Skulltree dam; the flowage reached far back that year.

  2. I went away to take a special course in hydraulic engineering, so as to know more about protecting the common rights in the flowage of this river.

  3. The flowage vastly increased the extent of the deadwater, slowing the logs of the independents, whose towage methods were crude.

  4. And my course in engineering was a good investment; I can talk turkey to them about our dams and the flowage rights.

  5. He said he would use some kind of flowage, and hoped that when the lawyers got done talking in court it would be decided that the aforesaid nat'ral flowage was the kind that had been used by him.

  6. The chartered operators control the flowage completely, opening and shutting gates at their pleasure.

  7. On these marshes, wherever the flowage is killing the grass, the vine is rapidly spreading, without transplanting.

  8. The water power has a fall of eighteen feet and a flowage of about three miles.

  9. The flowage covers many thousands of acres.

  10. A sixty foot channel has been left through the flowage for slucing logs.

  11. The motion may not be that of flowage in the usually accepted sense of the term.

  12. When ice of sufficient thickness has accumulated (probably at best several hundred feet), the spreading action or flowage begins and a glacier has developed.

  13. At Chicago the rise of water is estimated at about nine inches per century, which means increase of flowage through the Chicago Canal.

  14. In the zone of flowage the rocks, where subjected to great lateral pressure, act like plastic materials and therefore bend rather than break, because of the great weight of overlying materials.

  15. All other remedies for such flowage are taken away, and thus the land of the owner may be converted into a mill-pond against his consent.

  16. We have in mind now, the common case of water temporarily raised, by Winter flowage or by Summer freshets.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.