embankment

[US]/ɪm'bæŋkm(ə)nt/
[UK]/ɛmˈbæŋkmənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a raised bank or wall built to carry a roadway or hold back water

Example Sentences

The embankment was washed out by the storm.

the embankment was overwhelmed and water surrounded the mosque.

By strengthening the embankments they secured the village from floods.

The bus came off the road and plunged down an embankment.

The waves washed over the sea embankment with a loud crashing noise.

The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.

And geothermal field of embankment become dissymmetrical at ubac and solar slope due to the asymmetry of aspects and geometrical sizes, which also leads to a dissymmetry of embankment settlement;

And use the red gritstone silt soil build an embankment which reinforced by two-way tensioned geogrid.

The main controlling factors of embankment slope stability are engineering geological petrofabric,rockmass structure type and structure of embankment.

Real-world Examples

I slipped on one and started to slide down the embankment.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

It rolls down the embankment and lands up against their railings.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

Work is underway to strengthen river embankments and repair damaged roads.

Source: CRI Online August 2023 Collection

But the government and powerful landowners are known to breach these embankments on purpose.

Source: Vox opinion

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

Source: Magic Tree House

After breakfast near ten o'clock, we went down onto the embankment.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

The embankments along the river were built to protect regions from riverine flooding.

Source: Vox opinion

The Nautilus was stationary. It was floating next to an embankment shaped like a wharf.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

The British built embankments to keep floodwater from flowing past the river's banks.

Source: Vox opinion

It was blocked by the system of canals, embankments and wastewater drains built parallel to the river.

Source: Vox opinion

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