embankment in English

noun
1
a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and embankments to prevent flooding every day of the year.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "embankment" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "embankment", or refer to the context using the word "embankment" in the English Dictionary.

1. They climbed a steep embankment.

2. Said local levee as " Zhang embankment. "

3. The van slipped down the embankment.

4. For the multistage loadings of embankment, the logistic curve model to embankment settlement predication is put forward by error analyses and comparisons.

5. The embankment was washed out by the storm.

6. Woman And Baby Saved After Car Careens Down Embankment The car plummeted down a 75-foot embankment on 12th Avenue South

7. Key words: dam, clay, concrete, earth pressure, embankment, pile.

8. Playing on the railway embankment was well beyond that tolerance.

9. Bund definition: an embankment ; dyke Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

10. The train left the track and plunged down the embankment.

11. We scramble over the embankment and across the basin.

12. The bus came off the road and plunged down an embankment.

13. Bund definition, an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade

14. He was just sitting there up the embankment among the bushes.

15. Tractor-trailer Careens down 100-foot embankment after crash; 2 flown to hospitals

16. The bus plunged down the embankment, somersaulted twice and finally landed on its side.

17. There are several types of Cofferdams including earth embankment, rockfill embankment, sandbag embankment, single and double wall timber sheet pile, precast concrete blockwork, precast concrete frame unit, cellular sheet steel piling, bored cast-in-place piling, rock or earth fill timber cribs, flexible sheeting on timber or steel framing, and movable cofferdam.

18. Synonyms for Breastwork include rampart, bastion, bulwark, earthwork, embankment, fortification, parapet, defence, barbican and barricade

19. The creamy yellow flowers grew in profusion on the slopes of an old railway embankment.

20. For a river bridge, the Abutment also protects the embankment from scouring of …

21. The driver was ejected when the car hit an embankment and rolled over.

22. Peterborough Embankment roach to 8 oz fair sport around the new road bridge.

23. Bund definition is - an embankment used especially in India to control the flow of water.

24. The part of the DELTA business centre, Novotel Arkhangelsk is situated on Severnaya Dvina's embankment

25. He reassured the trapped deputies and climbed up the briar-covered embankment to get help.

26. A typical railway line is mainly characterized by two main types of scenario: viaduct and embankment.

27. Emotions have been running high in the community since James's body was found on a railway embankment.

28. This involved testing of the bridge's substructure, two abutment-embankment systems, middle piers-soil foundation systems and superstructure.

29. And they asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment.

30. Then I reached them, seized them, ripped them free of their tethers, and flung them to the embankment.

31. To assure that the sludge would consolidate and gain strength as predicted, a test embankment was built.

32. 23: Green Accosts a University of Washington student at knifepoint and throws her over an embankment after she screams

33. To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months.

34. The roots of tall standing trees can often present problems when the trees are growing on an embankment.

35. On his morning run along the Embankment, Adam mulled over the tasks that still needed to be carried out next.

36. Cheek said one driver had lost control of his car and spun out, rolling down an embankment, but was unhurt.

37. He brushed dust from his sleeve and headed towards the flight of stone steps that led up to the embankment.

38. A Bulwark is a strong defensive barrier, often an embankment or wall-like fortification, from which fire can be directed

39. A Bulwark is a strong defensive barrier, often an embankment or wall-like fortification, from which fire can be directed

40. He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees.

41. This part of the embankment was the first to be built to the designs of B. Grueber between 1841 and 18

42. Cars streamed along the Embankment, their headlamps probing the dusk; a barge slapped its way along the shimmering river.

43. Benching (as detailed in the ODOT Construction Inspection Manual of Procedures, Section 203.05, “Benching”) to assure the embankment is “knitted” together

44. Nearby, people are taking their morning baths or doing the laundry on the decks of stilt houses crowding the river embankment.

45. On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line.

46. Ads Group Limited registered address is Salamanca Square, 9 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7SP and is registered in England no

47. It is very difficult to properly compact the embankment materials that must be placed around the columns and under the Abutment cap

48. His embankment across the Glaslyn estuary was completed in 1811 amidst much rejoicing and ox-roasting, only to collapse the following year.

49. This strip was noticed by the people at the fort and named as "Allah bund" or the mound/embankment of Allah or God.

50. Carrotwoods; Street Trees; Embankment Trees; Eucalyptus Trees Near Pool; Shade Trees; Border Trees; Paseo Tranquilo Entrance Project; Landscape Long-Term Goals