How do you use the word "dyke" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "dyke": The dyke was repaired and the seawater was pumped out. I live near the dyke.

Dyke Meaning

/ˈdaɪ̯k/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

nounAn earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

Sentence Examples

The dyke was repaired and the seawater was pumped out.

I live near the dyke.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

dam dike

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmers built a thick earthen ____ to prevent the river from flooding the fields.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ was repaired and the seawater was pumped out.

Word Origin & History

A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dīkiją (“trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“stick into, pierce; dig, stick a spade into”). The semantic evolution (also seen in several cognate words) was from "stick (a spade) into" to "dig" to "hole or other product of digging", "excavation", then the ridge of earth created when excavating a ditch, then to a ridge of earth intended to prevent flooding.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water." — 1891, Susan Hale, The Story of Nations: Mexico, page 100:

"Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation." — 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

"The Galloway Dyke / In southwest Scotland there is a local style of dry stone dyke that is now recognized as 'the Galloway dyke', although when this pattern of ^([sic]) was first developed, it was simply described as 'the sheep dyke'.'" — 2023 February 21, Nick Aitken, Dry Stone Walling - Materials and Techniques, The Crowood Press, →ISBN:

"Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava." — 1968, Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, page 148:

"In Cubbaroo's dim distant past They built a double dyke. Back to back in the yard it stood An architectural dream in wood." — 1977, Ian Slack-Smith, “The Passing of the Twin Seater”, in The Cubbaroo Tales:

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