sandbag
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Ultimately, Bertrand removes a 50-pound sandbag from the counterweight bin, tightens the sling, and realigns the wooden trough.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
The council opened sandbag depots across the region to help residents protect their homes.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
And he has had spills in the public eye: falling off a bicycle, tripping over a sandbag.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Nearby on Berkeley Avenue, a man with a shovel filled a sandbag from a pile of dirt sitting outside a construction site, surrounded by caution tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
Quickly, talking to himself, Azar hurled the last gas grenade, shot up another flare, then snatched the rope again and made the white sandbag dance.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"What you're seeing now is the most remarkable sight we haven't seen in 10 years," Keelung restaurant owner Penny Pan, 48, said as her husband placed sandbags at the entrance to their eatery.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The onslaught, largely from the air, has bewildered curators and aid agencies who thought they had figured out how to protect artworks and artifacts from conflicts, using everything from sandbags to padded crates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
This was a leader who rolled up his sleeves and stacked sandbags alongside firemen and volunteers, when toxic red sludge from a bauxite mine engulfed a Hungarian valley and threatened the Danube shore in 2010.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
Belfast City Council has issued a reminder that sandbags are available if people think their homes are at immediate risk of flooding.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
I had five sandbags, which I filled and put in front of me.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
As the group traveled through Kyiv in armored vehicles, she said, they witnessed signs of an active war, from sandbagged shelters to burned-out cars and memorials to those killed.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
"The president called to check on me. I told him I got sandbagged," McConnell joked to reporters, referencing President Joe Biden's explanation for his fall last month.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023
"Rather than wait for any response from the defense, the government sandbagged the process, filing this letter at 6:00 p.m. on Friday evening," Bankman-Fried's lawyers wrote.
From Reuters ● Jan. 28, 2023
“There will be no wavering” in American backing, Mr. Sullivan said at a news conference in a sandbagged conference room of the presidential office.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
The place was dark and cool, I remember, with crumbling walls and sandbagged windows and a ceiling full of holes.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Starting any new car company in America, let alone an electric one, requires uncanny maneuvering and persistence against every kind of bureaucratic, regulatory and political sandbagging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Institute experts also looked at the possibility of models "sandbagging" - or strategically hiding their true capabilities from testers.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
In a further sandbagging of any big-city swagger Seattle has left, its citizens will have to drive to a Walgreens near suburban Issaquah if they need a pharmacist’s help in the wee hours.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Emergency authorities received 50 calls for assistance, mostly for sandbagging of properties and help plugging leaking roofs, from residents in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state, due to Sunday's deluge.
From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2023
The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
