Example Sentences

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Your prow will soon be fast in the mud, your vessel's sides will scrape the river's banks, your boat will dam up the waters of the Hudson, and all the surrounding country will be inundated!

From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by Grable, F. C.

Bundles of bamboo, when bound together, will dam a stream, though each separate stem is but a feeble wand.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

We will go to Miss Everett's couzin's play, but we will dam it with faint praise.

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts