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• Common green corridors include railway embankments, river banks and roadside grass verges.From the entry green corridor
• Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.From the entry wash
• The river washed over the embankment at several places.From the entry wash over
• The embankment was the first-line defense against the flood.From the entry first-line
• A lot of rail embankments have been solidified by knotweed because the roots are so strong.2022 June 29, Paul Clifton, “Using AI technology to manage lineside vegetation”, in RAIL, number 960, page 32. From the entry Japanese knotweed
• Embankments made with uncompacted clay fill have no safe slope angles, Mair reports.2021 April 7, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Forecasting and monitoring key to preventing landslips”, in RAIL, number 928, page 9. From the entry uncompacted
• Dongyin Island and Siyin Island have been linked together by an embankment.[2020s, “Introduction of Dongyin”, in Dongyin Township Administration, Matsu, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021. From the entry Xiyin
• A sand boil that discharges clear water in a steady flow normally does not endanger the embankment.2015, Sheng-Hong Chen, “Operation and Maintenance of Hydraulic Structures”, in Hydraulic Structures, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN…. From the entry sand boil
• This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.1957 March, “The Shenfield-Southend Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, pages 157-158. From the entry counterfort
• The 44-metre landslip north of Hook left track hanging in mid-air as the clay embankment collapsed beneath it.2023 January 25, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Landslip wrecks London commuter services for 'weeks'”, in RAIL, number 975, page 8. From the entry mid-air
• Such an abutment would typically have wing walls that have sloping tops, to match the profile of the embankment.2023 May 3, Philip Haigh, “The art and science of building bridges”, in RAIL, number 982, page 40. From the entry wing wall
• You can't stop it, but rock armour slows it to a point where it doesn't wash ballast or embankment material away."2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, pages 59–60. From the entry rock armour
• Coop takes his own sweet time walking home along the alley between the storebacks and the railway embankment.2007, Steven Millhauser, Enchanted Night: A Novella. From the entry storeback
• The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation.1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, pages 9-10. From the entry Yangtze
• He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56. From the entry hone
• The embankments forming the lineside forest are also a cause for concern, as landslips can block the line for days or even weeks.2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42. From the entry landslip
• I worked my way downhill, slip sliding in the mud along a steep embankment that followed a stream until it emptied into a creek.2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 388. From the entry downhill
• The Syncrude Tar Sand Mine in Alberta, Canada uses a similar hydraulic cell construction technique to raise tailings embankments, although tailings are not cycloned.1988, Dirk J. A. Van Zyl, Steven G. Vick, Hydraulic Fill Structures, page 59. From the entry cyclone
• The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31. From the entry billboard
• All three structures were sited on made-up ground, to depths up to about 20 ft., which had been deposited to form the railway embankments.1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830. From the entry made-up
• One detail that has fueled speculation for over a decade is the tyre tracks, which show the Highlander accelerated as it went down the embankment rather than braking.2026 July 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Bryce Laspisa Vanished Near Castaic Lake After Spending 13 Hours Parked on a California Highway”, in Skip…. From the entry fuel
• Network Rail said this has been due to the driest ever spring and summer, which caused clay embankments to shrink unevenly in a process called soil moisture deficit.2025 November 12, “West of England services respite”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 17. From the entry unevenly
• An emergency South Western Railway (SWR) timetable came into force on September 5, in response to the shrinkage of clay embankments on the nine miles between Gillingham and Tisbury.2022 September 21, “Network News: West of England Line average speeds drop... to just 31mph”, in RAIL, number 966, page 18. From the entry shrinkage
• A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 54. From the entry bund
• That's quite some claim for a line where floods have often had the upper hand in the past 16 years, causing track bed and embankments to be rebuilt.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61. From the entry upper hand
• Staff have worked since February 10 to remove debris from the River Nith, install rock armour protection and strengthen the riverside before rebuilding and reprofiling the embankment.2020 April 8, “Network News: ... and Kilmarnock line after landslips”, in Rail, page 16. From the entry riverside
• People build embankments and dams, construct waterhouses, establish channels and canals, found power plant and so on to avoid flood, irrigate, supply water, ship and generate electricity.2009 September, XG Zhang, FR Ma, NP Yi, CJ Ling, “An Ancient Hydraulic Engineering: Safety Running of LingQu Canal, Guangxi in China and…. From the entry waterhouse
• At the southern tip of the island that was shaped like a letter qof they splashed up a stone embankment and clambered stiff and stumbling like unarticulated iron beings.2007 April 22, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013. From the entry unarticulated
• He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.2004, Jane Alison, The Marriage of the Sea. From the entry misswallow
• He said international bidding will be called next July 30 for the construction of the outer embankments for Taiwan's fourth international seaport at Wuchi, 14 miles west of Taichung.1973 March 11, “Building of Taichung port to start on time”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XIV, number 9, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Wuchi
• Old rail and timber groynes will be erected along the beach to trap shingle moved by coastwise drift, and to rebuild the protection to the toe of the embankment.1959 May, “Notes and News: Reconstruction of Sea Wall near Abergele”, in Railway Magazine, page 359. From the entry groyne
• The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513). From the entry hulking
• Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487. From the entry marl
• During the partial line closure, engineers installed sheet piling to act as a retaining wall to support the embankment and road, and make it safe to carry out long-term repairs.2023 March 8, “Network News: Section of Cotswold Line reopens after landslip”, in RAIL, page 25. From the entry sheet piling
• The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom.1952 October, “Notes and News: Derailment near Shawford”, in Railway Magazine, page 710. From the entry turn over

Meaning of embankment

1. noun 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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How do you use embankment in a sentence?

Embankment is used as a noun. For example: “Common green corridors include railway embankments, river banks and roadside grass verges.”

What is a short sentence with embankment?

“Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.”

What does embankment mean?

Embankment means 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.