Examples of 'embankment' in a sentence
Meaning of "embankment"
embankment (noun) - An embankment is a raised bank or wall built to hold back water or support a road or railway
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- a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
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Check the embankment on the far side.
His car went over the side of an embankment.
The embankment was but nine feet high.
A natural or artificial embankment along a river or stream.
The embankment constructed as the rail bed.
He was crawling on the embankment by the railroad stations.
An embankment dam is a massive artificial water barrier.
It could be rerouted along a disused railway embankment.
Reduces embankment loadings on the underlying peat.
I hope you will yourself over an embankment.
The lightweight embankment construction sequence was as follows.
I am guarding the other one on the embankment.
The embankment has since been repaired.
The remaining length of the line is on an embankment.
The embankment is made of dressed laterite blocks.
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Watch out for the steep embankment.
At a green embankment they were ordered to kneel.
Probably tossed from the embankment here.
Down by the embankment at an old empty church.
It probably slipped when we hit the embankment.
It is created by an embankment dam and an outlet structure.
Throw that food down the embankment.
Construction of embankment pile structures on an operational railway.
Find all coverage behind the embankment.
Will consider embankment costs as incidental to excavation.
The tank crowds us right into an embankment.
The elongation of the embankment line must corres.
These are now buried under a parking embankment.
The car went over an embankment and caught fire.
It is located in the north of the city on an embankment.
A steep embankment can stop the spread of fire.
On both sides of the reservoir are embankment dams.
Summary of embankment strengthening using timber raft construction.
Blossoms have come out on the embankment.
It is currently undergoing embankment installation and river normalization.
The peel was situated on this embankment.
It happened on the embankment when the car stopped.
There is a battlement and a gatehouse on the embankment.
The embankment broke at three points.
The station building is located on a slight embankment.
Within the dam embankment were two masonry structures.
The station and track is located on an embankment.
Southern embankment has partly collapsed.
Jump off and swim to the embankment.
An embankment was built to protect the settlement from flooding.
Brings you straight onto the embankment.
The embankment to the railway station was also nearby.
He would not have seen the embankment.
The embankment began to turn into a recreation area.
Tapping or spinning on a death cookie or snow embankment.
