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

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

Widmayer said, I know where you’re talking about, and drove the guys to their truck, parked near a bridge abutment that stands as a memorial to the now-torn-down Detters Mill Road bridge.

From Washington Times • Jul. 4, 2014

Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown