berm
Example Sentences
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They fell silent as an Israeli armored vehicle rumbled past, its antenna swinging above the berm blocking the street.
From Los Angeles Times
Satellite images show that troops started to construct a massive berm - a raised sand barrier - around the perimeter of el-Fasher, sealing off access routes and blocking aid.
From BBC
They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.
Between the outpost and the ruins rises a sand berm about two stories high and topped with barbed wire.
Earlier this year, the militia tightened its hold on El Fasher by walling it off with a sand berm, according to satellite photos published in August by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
