Use "embankments" in a sentence
1. Cuttings and embankments are often a haven for wildlife.
2. Monitoring of a wide variety of soil masses (dams, embankments, foundations, etc.).
3. By strengthening the embankments they secured the village from floods.
4. Construction of embankments, tunnels and bridges for the A15 line began in 1998.
5. River embankments broke in 70 places, destroying 27 bridges, while about 105 dikes were destroyed.
6. Coypu LIMITATIONS 223 Wherever the Coypu has escaped it has damaged embankments and stream banks
7. The span of a bridge is connected with embankments by means of Abutments
8. Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is famous for its rice fields, shrimp ponds, embankments and canals.
9. sniffing alone or in dangerous places , such as railway embankments and by canals , can be more risky .
10. Synonyms for Breastworks include ramparts, bastions, bulwarks, earthworks, embankments, fortification, parapets, defence, barbicans and barricades
11. He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass.
12. Railway embankments are a favourite because there's little to disturb them as they forage through adjoining gardens for food.
13. Roads were damaged, the motorway A15 was partially closed and railway networks were interrupted, embankments and bridges collapsed.
14. The work consists of the construction of earth embankments, other earthfills, and earth Backfills required by the drawings and specifications
15. ‘He stressed that plans were also in place to create Bunds, or embankments, to contain the stockpiles, although covering them was impractical for operational reasons.’
16. The till core of these zoned embankments is either placed directly on the till strata or extended through the alluvia to the underlying till by a core trench.
17. Building construction, maintenance and repair of roads, lanes, paths, bridges, bridge abutments, stabilised soil structures, structures for mechanically stabilising soil, soil stabilising devices, embankments, supporting walls, dams, tunnels, gutters, enclosures, reservoirs, tanks and silos
18. The Polesine is an area through which the two main Italian rivers, the Po and the Adige, flow. Before the current embankments which set their course, these rivers often deposited alluvium on the plain.