Dikes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DIKE, to furnish with an embankment, also DYKE
• to build a wall in order to prevent flooding.

Words related to DIKES

dike9 diked11 diking12

Words that contain DIKES

bulldikes16 klondikes18

How to use DIKES in a sentence

• So thus the band journeyed along the causeway between the dikes, till at last they reached the great gate of Emmet Priory.
• Battles might be lost, like those of William the Silent, but if the Dutch could overflow their dikes, the Americans, as a last resort, could seek shelter in their forests.
• The formation of dikes for the protection of lands formerly submerged was already well understood, and regulated by uniform custom.
• The preservation of the dikes, requiring an annual expense of six hundred thousand pounds sterling, was everywhere neglected.
• Nothing impresses the visitor to Holland more than the vast dikes or dams which restrain the sea from overwhelming the country.
• They were all aggravating, but the dikes possessed some intellectual interest which the others lacked.
• Now, some dikes are long and narrow, others are short and wide, and still others are nearly round.
• When Bennington came to one of these dikes he was forced to pick his way carefully in a detour around its base.
• The dikes had been opened and part of the country flooded.
• He proposes to fight the sea by building dikes which shall hold the rushing water in check and make dry land of the tide-swept area.
• They inclose considerable areas with little dikes of mud, leaving openings for the entrance of the water, which are closed as the tide falls.
• He stood a long time quietly watching the gentle waves that were combing their foam on the rocks of the dikes under the horizontal fishing rods of various fishermen.
• They had been settled in the low grounds, forcing back, by dint of dikes, the sea and rivers wherewith those plains were covered.
• The roads, even the best of them, are mere paths, narrow, deep sunk between enormous dikes, and so fenced by hedges and trees, as to be almost impervious to the light of day.
• In Zealand alone the dikes extend to a distance of more than four hundred kilometers.
• Whether the sea by its own force broke through the natural dikes of the region, or whether the sinking of the land left it free to invasion, is not certainly known.
• And when the magnificent army had evacuated the flooded country, the dikes were quietly closed again and time and windmills restored their fields to fertility.
• They drew up at the top of a little bridge over one of the dikes.
• These ideas were then spreading through the multitude, and when resisted, they broke through their dikes, and burst onward with greater violence.
• Dikes skirt the margins of the streams, and wind-mills are engaged in perpetual toil to raise the water from the fields into the channels by which it is conveyed away.
• I afterward learned that these are dikes of trap, from which the softer rock has been gradually disintegrated, leaving them thus happily arranged for human convenience.
• Fresh dikes appeared above the water, and had to be cut through amid the resistance of the Spaniards.
• Then come farther east and take these lands that are swamp, that need draining, and build ditches and dikes and put these lands into the service of America.
• The first sunbeams glowed upon their emerald levels, and on the blossoming hedges along the rectangular dikes.
• Everywhere there were the same rectangular fields, smooth canals, and bushy dikes.
• Dikes or levees are built to regulate the spread and flow of the water and to protect the land from destructive floods.
• Like waves of the sea, Bursting the dikes in their overflow, Madly his veterans dashed on the foe.
• In 1532 the sea burst the dikes of Zealand, destroying hundreds of villages, and covering forever a large tract of country.
• In Zealand alone the dikes extend to a distance of more than four hundred kilometres.
• If the season happens to be dry, the same dikes serve to conduct the irrigating water through the field, and to carry off what does not soak into the earth in a few hours.
• By opening the gates in the dikes the Allies had let in the sea and placed a flood in front of the advancing enemy.

Similar words containing DIKE without suffix s

dike9 diked11 diker10 dikey13 dikers11 bulldike15 diketone13 klondike17 bulldikes16 diketones14 klondiked19 klondiker18 klondikes18 klondikers19

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