has dammed
- present perfect of dam (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The country has dammed most of its rivers and lined them with concrete.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
The ice has dammed the channel and led to minor flooding of low-lying areas around the river, David Carr with the Central Platte Natural Resources District told the Grand Island Independent.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
That’s especially the case as the pandemic continues to keep many storefronts closed — which, in turn, has dammed the county’s revenue stream.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2020
Experts have also questioned the wisdom of erecting more concrete defenses in a country that has dammed most of its major river systems and fortified entire shorelines with breakwaters and concrete blocks.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2017
He has dammed up all those lights that nature made into the noblest prospects of the world, and opened other little blind loopholes backward by turning day into night, and night into day.'
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace
