Hoover Dam

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a dam in the western US, on the Colorado River on the border between Nevada and Arizona; forms Lake Mead. Height: 222 m (727 ft). Length: 354 m (1180 ft)Former name (1933–47): Boulder Dam

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Words nearby Hoover Dam

hooter, Hooton, hoot owl, hoover, hoover apron, Hoover Dam, Hoover, Herbert, Hoover, J. Edgar, Hoover's sign, Hooverville, Hoovervilles

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How to use Hoover 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
We live in a world where a J. Edgar Hoover biopic got made before a Martin Luther King Jr. one.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History|Marlow Stern|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover.
I Saw Nuclear Armageddon Sitting on My Desk|Clive Irving|November 10, 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

The world in which a J. Edgar Hoover movie exists before an MLK movie is utterly bizarre to me.
David Oyelowo on Playing Martin Luther King Jr., Ebola Fears, and Race in Hollywood|Marlow Stern|October 15, 2014|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