abutment

Example Sentences

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“When you’re plowing the road you need to know where the bridge abutment is and where the expansion joints are so you don’t hook that with a plow,” LaBoe said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021

There was a stone abutment retaining wall with rocks on the other side and the ocean below.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2021

Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018

All eight had been on a 37-foot boat at the mouth of the Patapsco River when the boat struck the abutment, shearing off a piece of the bow above the waterline.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015

They sat on the broken abutment of the road and watched the river backing upon itself and coiling over the iron trelliswork.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy