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

Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018

All eight had been on a 37-foot boat at the mouth of the Patapsco River when the boat struck the abutment, shearing off a piece of the bow above the waterline.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015

River Action, Inc. has an ambitious plan to re-create a single span of that bridge as a trail from the original earthen abutment over River Drive to Davenport’s Heritage Park.

From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2014

I run down the street, vault over the bridge railing, and climb down the abutment to the creek.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George