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embank - use in sentences
Object
- circle: There are now only 33 stones left and it is classed as a flattened and embanked stone circle.
- path: Take the left fork up a small bank and keep to the embanked path, passing pylons and old allotments on your right.
- road: The traditional settlement pattern is dispersed, with most buildings set back from the embanked roads.
- enclosure: It is an unusually animated scene, which the tree and embanked enclosure indicate as taking place in a rural setting.
- section: The new Graham Palmer Lock, built to overcome the subsidence of the embanked section beyond.
Preposition: on
- side: There is some slight internal embanking on the south side, and overall there is little to suggest a raised churchyard.
Modifying Another Word
- extensively: It has been extensively embanked, and many of its London tributaries now flow underground.
- internally: This is internally embanked on the east and southeast and has been subsequently terraced.
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