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Sentence Examples Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway embankment. It was decided to ignore the protective gabion walls alongside the toe of the embankment for the purpose of the ranking. Three Stryker crewmen were killed, back in December, when a Stryker rolled over when part of the dirt embankment underneath it collapsed. Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an embankment, killing the driver. I could taste the smoke in my mouth and smell the nightshade growing up the embankment and feel my mum's hand on my arm. In the winter of 1989, she was a 35-year-old mother when her car skidded on black ice and careened over an embankment. An engineered embankment and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres. Known as the Kennewick Man, the skeleton was found in 1996 by spectators at a boat race after the remains eroded from an embankment. It slid off the road and down an embankment on to the East Coast main line. When material is to be used to form an embankment or dam or to raise ground levels it is important to attain a dense condition. As we reached the dip before the main road away from the lake, the car slid into an embankment. People living in Wessex Gardens fear the school building proposed for an elevated position on a tall embankment will totally overwhelm them. Situated in the farthest corner of the glade was a slight embankment, leading down into a large, crystal clear lake. Shells fell everywhere, bursting along the embankment, splashing them with frozen slush. Found a nice spot on the cement embankment, away from the spray, and sat down to contemplate on life. The pair waded through waist-deep freezing water to reach a woman who had fallen down an embankment in Broadbent. The bus left the road at at the bottom of a steep downhill, and careered 70 metres down an embankment. The wall at Pinfold Cottage will be repaired and a short section of new embankment is also proposed next to the washland. The six giant grey cattle thundered along the embankment, their nostrils jetting steam in the cold air of a Hungarian autumn morning. Suddenly, Urlacher steps over one of the fences, breaks into a jog down an embankment and on to the field. Show More Sentences The stone embankment came up in Hari Singh's regime and was further concretized by the successive governments. Yes, we catch the water through an embankment and the water recharges the underground aquifers. Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness. The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance. I went through a hedge, down an embankment and ended up just yards from a river. He was on his way to a garage to have his car resprayed when it spun out of control and went down an embankment. The new plan proposed an embankment like his original one, this time on the left bank of the Thames from Hungerford to London Bridge. Another man was killed this time last year when the truck he was driving veered off the road and down the railway embankment on to the tracks. Some of the impoundments were lined with plastic, which flapped over the edge of the dirt embankment like a garbage bag inside a trash can. When the traffic finally started to move, I passed an embankment on the right hand side of the motorway which was covered with grazing sheep. After falling awkwardly injuring her leg, she was unable to get to her feet and scramble back up the embankment to the path above. Thirty yards out from the town goal on the grass embankment was where our group could be found. Sea heath and sea lavender create a spectacular natural border to the embankment path. The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway embankment to Milner's Road. The aircraft hit the embankment short of the threshold, sliding up it, turning through 90-deg and coming to a stop. Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light. Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an embankment onto the railway line had set off the accident. Buday was on that train, just adjusting to his upper bunk when his coach left the tracks, coming to rest upside-down at the bottom of an embankment. We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap. The plane settled about 400 yards from the runway in an embankment off a five-lane highway. Show More Sentences However, with the road wet from the showers that had been falling in the district, it aquaplaned off the road and went nose-first into the embankment. India had started construction of the Rassiyal-Khurda-Lautan barrage and a supporting embankment in the Marchabar area on the Indian side of the border. The bus, carrying eight passengers, came to a stop on an embankment which overlooks the busy A184 road and just short of a T-junction on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne. Over the last mile of rail trackbed there's a pond with alders, a wren squeaked in the scrub and then we walked a low embankment that has commendably been spared the plough. An earth embankment was built across the harbour mouth to protect the ships from the weather, and a castle was constructed at the top of the hill. The roadway surfaces and embankment slopes, where disturbed, to be restored to a condition not inferior to that in which they are found before the works are commenced. Though the panther was many hundred feet below, it could easily run through the bush, scramble up the embankment and surprise them around a hairpin bend! In a split second, the vehicle moved to the side of the road before hitting the kerb and going off the carriageway, smashing through a fence and down an embankment. The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton. His vehicle had, somehow, come off the motorway, missing the crash barriers, plunged down an embankment and through a wooden fence into the field he was now standing in. Children, their parents and other residents spent yesterday morning tidying up the embankment, which will bloom with crocuses and daffodils next spring. He told the council last Tuesday that speed restrictions have already been put on trains as they go over the embankment close the village railway station. Once the vehicle's momentum had carried it towards the embankment alongside the railway tracks there would have been no way it could have been halted in time. Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed. Occurrence of frost heave has always been a crucial indicator of the quality of the road embankment in seasonal frost regions. The town of Wareham retains its Saxon earth embankment wall and its churches have Saxon origins. Next day sluice gates on the coast at Nieuport were opened and flooded the area between the Yser and the railway embankment. An area of 29 hectares will be excavated and the material will be used to construct a 3 metre high embankment around the site. The Fleetwood Docks Act of 1864 enabled the construction of a dock and embankment for both fishing and general cargo. The road at this point follows the Soar Valley, and is mostly on embankment or viaduct, crossing the river four times. Show More Sentences The stadium was built with one stand before the opening of another in 1928 which could hold 18,000 people to replace an earth embankment. As the rain had formed deep puddles on either side of the railway embankment, most of the party remained on or near the railway tracks. Development of a large-scale environmental chamber to investigate the dessication behaviour of flood embankment profiles, in Proc. Local media said the astonished canoeists put the animal on an embankment at a local golf club where koalas were known to populate the gum trees. They assaulted the embankment, preceding their assault with volleys from slings and spears thrown by machines. Winding alongside the canal at a distance, the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway crossed the area on an embankment. The car left the A35 at Axminster in Devon, crashed into a wooden fence at the bottom of an embankment and ploughed into a wooded area. Coop takes his own sweet time walking home along the alley between the storebacks and the railway embankment. At the Circus Maximus, the turning posts and starting stalls were replaced in marble and embellished, and an embankment was probably added to prevent flooding of the track. Retired Mr Edwards, 77, who had been visiting a friend, stopped in a lay-by to answer a call of nature but stumbled down the steep embankment shortly before 6pm yesterday. Along Borrage Lane, an embankment was built behind 15 properties to create a continuous line of defence to strengthen and fill in gaps in the previous piecemeal defences. A teacher died in the crash, after the bus flipped over and plunged to the bottom of a motorway embankment in the Champagne-Ardenne region on Sunday. The teenager sparked a massive police hunt when she claimed to have been attacked at knifepoint on the railway embankment near Weddington Fields seven weeks ago. The men gathered on the track moved out of the way of the approaching Rocket, either by climbing onto the embankment or getting back into their carriages. Now, we are taking shelter in the embankment in a Kaccha house. Matt Craker, 39, rescued his seven-year-old son Freddie through a window and helped another victim before taking cover on an embankment near the motorway. The most severe flood occurred early on the morning of 5 February 1852, when the embankment of the Bilberry Reservoir collapsed causing the deaths of 81 people. Additional works relate mainly to increase the height of the embankment subgrade and improvement of drainage system, which will reduce the risk of cracking of the asphalt. 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. Examples from Classical Literature But the Romans had two words, agger the embankment, and vallum the palisading on the top of it. The brickmaker thinks you fell in the water by imprudently venturing too near the slope of the embankment. Do you remember that night on the embankment when we were both so scared of getting married? Katherine watched them as they crossed the street and turned on to the embankment. The others had barely got beyond the embankment, when they were swept away. The dam and floodgate were just beyond the southwestern bastion and the old embankment of the dam can still be traced. Then, dropping the halberd, he seized a spade and began the first embankment. A turbocar came barreling down the highway and, without warning struck an embankment. It was not until the erection of the Wallasey embankment that a stop was put to its ravages. How nobly consistent is this with his other argument in the days of his princedom and his neglect of the embankment! A TEENAGER was rescued after falling down a steep embankment into a stream and dislocating his knee in the Black Country. The embankment being completed, the animals construct their lodges. I'd been walking up and down the embankment for about three hours. Tunnels followed, and after each the sky grew bluer, and from the embankment at Finsbury Park he had his first sight of the sun. No scampering across the railroad embankment this time for the members. This was a hobo jungle, pitched in a thin strip of woods that lay between a railroad embankment and the bank of a river. There was a crowd on the embankment by the corner of the Ripetta bridge. Then it was he discovered that the form of Uncas vanished, and that he beheld only the dark outline of an inequality in the embankment. Silvan Dam is an embankment dam currently under construction in the district of Silvan, Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey. The horse cantered on, rose at the embankment of the water-channel, changed leg cleverly on top, and hopped down in a cloud of golden dust. Show More Sentences It stands in a ballium or court, surrounded by a moat and an embankment. This cromlech is surrounded by a trench and an earthen embankment. Horton motioned to the men, and six of them lifted the stretcher and began to carry it up the embankment. The Cadillac hit the embankment, flipped over the edge, and smashed. Another embankment burst yesterday in the Kot Almo area in Sindh province, causing thousands of people to flee from their homes. The dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide, all around us, and cast up an embankment some twenty-five feet high on both borders of it. As soon as it was good and dark, I shut off the current from all the fences, and then groped my way out to the embankment bordering our side of the great dynamite ditch. On a low hill in the centre of Reykjavik, the site faces west over a windswept embankment, dominated by a monumental statue of Ingolfur Arnarsson, the first Icelander. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of embankment? Words that rhyme with embankment What is the plural of embankment? What is the noun for embankment? Translations for embankment Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words embanked embank embalmment embalming embalmers embalmer embankments embar embarass embarassing embarassment embarcadero 10-letter Words Starting With e em emb emba emban embank embankm embankme embankmen