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 a fatal crash in Mountain View, Calif., in 2018, a Tesla running on Autopilot drove head-on into a concrete abutment.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

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

From Slate • Jun. 25, 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

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