1.   If there is heavy rain, the spillways must be enlarged to allow the floodwater to escape before the dam bursts.

2.   Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst, smashing back the last barriers to her soul, and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion.

3.   It was like a dam burst and it all just came roaring down and I was just trying to catch as much of that as possible.

4.   A state of emergency was declared in the city after one dam burst.

5.   Downstream villages were also at risk of being washed away if the rubble dam bursts and the pent-up water floods through the valley, she said.

6.   The dam burst occurred on the Kuban-Kel lake, which forms the border between western Kyrgyzstan and eastern Uzbekistan, the Interfax news agency reported.

7.   The dam burst following an explosion in a main pipeline, which officials had failed to check despite an order to carry out maintenance work, the newspaper said.