banked

Example Sentences

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But it banked track position and ensured Red Bull had to run Verstappen longer, to build a tyre offset to come back at Russell over the remaining laps.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

“The only real input I’m going to have is … understanding their process … and then if there are some financial decisions that are being banked into who we pick and why.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026

The lower level of the Winners Gallery has cars on pedestals that are banked 9 degrees, 12 minutes—the same as the four banked turns of the racetrack.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

They banked almost 500,000 seeds from 19 species, including relatives of lettuce, parsnip, strawberry, radish, quinoa, blackberry, alfalfa and several species used as fodder crops for livestock.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Radar, ever the brilliant tactician, has banked an extra thirty minutes without telling us.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green