Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for milldam
Noun
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Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.—
Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the weirs found along the route were involved in the milling process.—
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Trump’s pressure campaign has included a barrage of personal insults at Powell, evolving into threats to fire the Fed chair.—
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Newsom used the speech to continue the anti-Trump barrage that has boosted his national standing among Democratic activists.—
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In some instances, the county will erect physical barriers, including locking the gates to county facilities.—
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This gap has been one of the biggest barriers to deploying robots in dynamic, unstructured environments.—
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Eventually, the animals were clustered into a sluice-like enclosure, and then the animals would be extracted one by one.—
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Charlie got into the shower, letting the hot water sluice off the rest of the blood on her back and whatever had dried in her hair.—
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Plans for the final buildings in Oceanside’s 25-year-old, nine-block downtown master plan were approved on a 3-2 vote Wednesday after the developer agreed to widen the distance between the two structures.—
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The wallpaper pro suggests a medium-scale floral block print, which will read more subdued than larger- or smaller-scale options on either side of the spectrum.—
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While the outside world locks into the exhilarating highlights, Johnson drills down on the nuances.—
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After turning the lock with his teeth and tongue, Dawson pushes open the front door and walks out into the night.—
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Due to the barricade situation, additional agents were called to the scene, officials said.—
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Insisting that a barricade of battleships and roughly 15,000 armed troops at Venezuela’s border is a non-invasive police action is just another misdirection.—
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Trump had posted some of Loomer’s footage on his Truth Social account and threatened to seize the canal, prompting Panamanians to burn effigies of him.—
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As the population swelled, the Uji was joined with the Yodo and Katsura Rivers to create a network of canals for the transport of goods, expanding the shogun’s economic reach and power.—
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“Milldam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milldam. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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