embankment
Example Sentences
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They located the woman about 75 feet down a steep embankment.
From Los Angeles Times
They then dropped it out the window, carried it across the river bridge in a wheelbarrow and fled in a car parked near the embankment.
Other wider sections of the Radical Road would have a sloped earth embankment built to catch any rockfall.
From BBC
From an embankment overlooking Gaza City, there's no hiding what this war has done.
From BBC
It said £30m was being invested in earthworks across Lancashire and Cumbria over the next four years "to stabilise embankments, track beds and cuttings", as well as a £323m modernisation programme to futureproof the route.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
