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

In 2020, a 16-inch city water main burst at a bridge abutment over I-40 and dumped roughly 500,000 gallons on the freeway, a main freight route from California ports.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Construction vehicles will use the road when building the abutment of a bridge that will carry light-rail trains over Colesville Road, Julian said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019

River Action, Inc. has an ambitious plan to re-create a single span of that bridge as a trail from the original earthen abutment over River Drive to Davenport’s Heritage Park.

From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 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