Embankments
[ɪm'bæŋkmənts]
Examples
- They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely as it advanced with caution between the embankments. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its construction involved the building across the bar and out into the Gulf of Mexico two long reaches of parallel embankments, called jetties. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many citizens secured places of safety for their families by carving out rooms in these embankments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Sweeney