polder

How To Use polder In A Sentence

• Upon requests, the head of state promised the residents and farmers that an excavator would be provided to empolder their land, mentioning that 350 residents of Mahaica, Mahaicony and the Pomeroon had already benefited. Stabroek News
• But, as the main waterways became silted up and were impoldered, the character of the city changed.
• Even today the Dutch are famous for impoldering, building dikes and all kinds of water control.
• It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder.
• Before the Dutch diligently applied their drainage technology to the polders of the Médoc in the mid 17th century, the region was salt-marsh, of interest for grazing rather than vine-growing.
• Based in the remote polder lands of Holland, Heerenveen, under the astute eye of their coach, Foppe de Haan, are seen in Dutch football as a sort of finishing school.
• Over 100 boxes were erected on a new polder and a large proportion were occupied by kestrels in the first season.
• Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
• You don't have to go through a portal to find a magic polder, a refuge from reality. MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy?
• A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage.