embankment - use in sentences
Converse of object
- stabilize: British Waterways ' began work to stabilize the embankment on 2nd March.
- reinforce: The old railroad lines that had been used to reinforce the steep embankment can still be seen sticking out from the remains.
- construct: Showing a newly constructed earth embankment running through thick forest.
- build: This loop was bypassed by an embankment built in 1849.
- raise: At the edge of my vision was the raised railroad embankment.
- cross: The canal crosses an embankment past an old wharf which served a pumping station.
Adjective modifier
- a27: They were discovered on the A27 road embankment just east of the bridge section where it crosses the Waterworks Road.
- earthen: Almost the whole length of both banks of the Creek was still lined with earthen embankments in the 1770s.
- grassy: The canal looks down on it from a short grassy embankment.
- disused: The Iron Road was installed along a stretch of disused railroad embankment deep in the Forest.
- steep: Beware of the steep embankment on the approach to the bottom landing field.
- southern: At the opposite end, the viaducts are further apart where they hit the southern embankment.
Modifies a noun
- dam: Embankment dams Embankment dams are very low in height compared to their length.
- wall: Here's a picture from Arriva Trains Wales showing the damage to the embankment wall.
Noun used with modifier
- railroad: Walking along the bottom path, parallel to the railroad embankment, you will pass several young Douglas Fir in a line.
- motorway: Birds of prey are often to be seen hovering over motorway embankments.
- flood: The old OS map shows the branch heading south east, between flood embankments.
- canal: Steps made in the canal embankment from a canal side garden.
- earth: Earlier dams had just been created by making earth embankments.
- grass: The footpath takes you up a grass embankment, and straight into the bailey of the castle.
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