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embankment
noun as in dike
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Example Sentences
It's a charge that is resonating across the Philippines, where people are asking why the government cannot tame the floods with the billions of pesos it pours into infrastructure like roads, bridges and embankments.
In the morning rush hour, the traffic along the Dnipro river embankment is heavy and slow-moving as people try to get to work and go about their daily lives.
Rescue crews hiked down a 70-foot embankment to search the area.
The body of a missing Southern California woman was found this weekend at the bottom of an embankment in the Angeles National Forest, according to authorities.
A man has died after his car left the road and crashed down a railway embankment onto tracks in Harrogate, police said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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