Sentence examples for impound from high-quality English sources.

• That means the government is supposed to impound them.

• Shasta Dam was built to impound the waters of the Sacramento River; Friant Dam, the waters of the San Joaquin.

• Scientists also explored the feasibility of constructing a reservoir under the Arabian Sea, to impound that water for supply.

• Sony was also seeking to impound his “circumvention devices,” and it wanted him to take all the instructions offline immediately.

• Griggs (built 1908) and O’Shaughnessy (1925) dams, both near Columbus, impound narrow reservoirs for water supply.

• Customs officers and militiamen reportedly impound trucks and confiscate goods, then demand hefty bribes for their return.

• Reservoirs, ditches, and dikes were constructed by Tohono O’odham men to slow and impound runoff waters along the flood channels.

• In 1857, after the lone miners had worked the place over, the American River Ditch Company built a dam there, to impound water for hydraulic mining.

Use impound in a sentence.

• That principle, in force from around 1812, was reaffirmed when international courts blocked America’s attempt to impound an Argentine warship at a port in Ghana in 2012.

• Hydroelectric power plants are usually located in dams that impound rivers, thereby raising the level of the water behind the dam and creating as high a head as is feasible.

• The project uses a series of reservoirs, diversion dams, and canals to impound the waters of the Truckee and Carson rivers for crop irrigation in Storey, Lyon, and Churchill counties.

• Asked about the route farther north, he tries to impound your correspondent’s passport, cautioning that drug traffickers control the trade routes across the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.

• The role of water-storage reservoirs, therefore, is to impound water during periods of higher flows, thus preventing flood disasters, and then permit gradual release of water during periods of lower flows.

• The public ministry in Huamuxtitlán told them that the bodies had been sent on to the state capital; all that remained was the victims’ truck, riddled with bullet holes, which was being held at a local impound lot.

• The other morning, in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood, a heavyset man in unlaced work boots peered through a chain-link fence at Ken Ben Industries, a tow-impound yard at Shore Parkway and Bay Forty-fourth Street.

• Wooten, who alleged that the federal Bureau of Land Management had conducted “the most intrusive, oppressive, large scale, and militaristic trespass cattle impound possible,” at the ranch, and that the government’s lead prosecutor, Steven W.

impound sentence examples

• The ship's technical managers, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, said in a statement that they found the SCA's decision to impound the Ever Given "extremely disappointing," citing the cooperation they had offered the authority in investigating the cause of the grounding.

• An early evening clarification from the Department of Health made clear that 2,400 gowns from an initial batch of 67,000 that had arrived in the UK last month had failed safety tests – forcing officials to impound the majority of the rest so they could be properly tested.

• Turkish officials and the company at the centre of the decision by the NHS to impound hundreds of thousands of protective gowns have claimed they are yet to receive a demand for a refund from the health service at the end of a day of confusion about an ill-fated order of 400,000 of the badly needed items of kit.

• “Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican C.E.O.s and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards — of which we issue about one million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all Nafta worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico (tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options).” — Campaign statement on immigration