Aswan Dam

[ (as-wahn, as-wahn) ]

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Dam just south of Aswan, a city in southern Egypt (see also Egypt), on the Nile River. One of the world's largest dams.

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notes for Aswan Dam

The United States and Britain withdrew financial aid for the dam's construction in 1956, after which the Soviet Union took over much of the financing.

Words nearby Aswan Dam

Asura, as usual, A.S.V., A.S.W., Aswan, Aswan Dam, Aswan High Dam, aswarm, as well, as well as, aswirl

How to use Aswan Dam in a sentence

A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.
Riding Thailand’s WWII Death Railway|Liza Foreman|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
Why Are Millennials Unfriending Organized Religion?|Vlad Chituc|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For example, he added, many highly valuable Western hostages are held in an ISIS prison beneath a dam near Raqqa.
Obama Is Just 'Tickling' ISIS, Syrian Rebels Say|Josh Rogin|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Arizona senator described a provision inserted into the debt deal appropriating $2 billion for a Kentucky dam as "disgusting."
McCain Trashes Part of Debt Deal|Ben Jacobs|October 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST

No single joke can topple a tyrant, but each one is a small stone cast at an already fractured dam.
Celebrate Dictator Appreciation Month|David Keyes|June 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
For that matter, he said, he didn't care a tinker's dam if we were; he had grub and bedding and we were welcome to both.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
The dam was completed, booms and cribbing placed, ledges blasted out well within the six months' period set for those operations.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
Then if each end of the log is on the upper side of the trees, the harder the water pounds the tighter the dam gets.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner