causeway
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It's said that he built the causeway as a bridge to Scotland, in order to fight another giant who was taunting him.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It being a little early for blackjack at the towering Beau Rivage, where I’d booked a room for the night, I instead crossed the causeway to nearby Ocean Springs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
At the Auckland Outboard Boating Club, members were having a Wednesday-night drink when one of them noticed a Zodiac lying abandoned on the causeway.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
The causeway has become a sparkling road of stones and white shells, and the quicksand on either side, grim graveyard of nearly a hundred knights, looks as innocent as any beach.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
With majestic temples, markets and pyramids linked by canals and causeways, Tenochtitlan was home at its peak to some 200,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He is among the 400,000 people expected to cram the causeways, beaches and motel balconies of Florida's Space Coast for the launch attempt of Artemis II tonight.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Television’s Memory Lane has as many versions as there are Atlanta streets named Peachtree, with only a few of those causeways seeing heavy traffic.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
It was a massive island city with large causeways that connected it to the shores of the lake.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“We have one set of people constructing the ring ditches and another set of people constructing the causeways and mounds,” Alvarez told me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing causeway
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Middle School and High School
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The Early Americas and European Exploration, Lessons 1–2
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