revetment - use in sentences

Converse of subject

  • protect: The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.

Converse of object

  • build: Each mound was encircled by a carefully built stone revetment.
  • form: Boundary: consists of the aforementioned ditch, with a stone wall forming a revetment to its inner face.
  • construct: Restoring damaged areas by constructing revetments and erosion barriers, filling, grading, reseeding and transplanting.
  • include: These uses include revetment, ground stabilization and reinforcement, drainage and revegetation.
  • have: There are larger enclosures to the north, possibly connected with the farm, with a small moated island which has a stone revetment.

Adjective modifier

  • concrete: This is a large single story concrete structure covered in earth and grassed with concrete revetments around it.
  • wooden: The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.
  • sloping: Marginal vegetation can be established on shelves constructed beneath vertical or steeply sloping revetments.
  • vertical: A cutting to the north located a possible rampart strengthened by tipped stone with a vertical timber revetment.

Modifies a noun

  • wall: Boundary: a stone revetment wall forms the boundary, up to 2m high, on the roadside to the east.
  • work: Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.
  • system: Erosion by wave attack is combated by a wide range of revetment systems.

Noun used with modifier

  • timber: A number of medieval timber revetments suggest the area contained a mass of shifting river channels.
  • stone: Boundary: a stone revetment wall forms the boundary, up to 2m high, on the roadside to the east.
  • rock: A rock revetment was constructed in 1992 in an attempt to address the basic cause of slope instability, i.e. basal wave erosion.
  • earth: The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.
  • bankside: Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.
  • river: Previously the earliest date was AD 52 from a river revetment.

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