embankments
- plural of embankment.
Example Sentences
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Embankments sometimes collapse in tidal surges, which are growing stronger.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023
Embankments were strengthened last year ahead of the flooding, helping to avert a bigger disaster, and riverbanks breached by floods have been repaired and reinforced.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023
Embankments blocked swollen upstream rivers from emptying south, leaving Nepal to deal with two or three times more flooding than India in some areas, according to local officials.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2019
Embankments were also blown up over the weekend in the town of Sandomierz in southern Poland to relieve conditions there.
From Reuters • May 24, 2010
Embankments on your River, wide spaces changed from ooze to meadow; on the Dollart still more, which has lain 500 years hidden from the sun.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas
