sandbag
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County’s map of free sandbag distribution sites can be found here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The company’s global events can draw tens of thousands of athletes, testing their strength and endurance as they cycle through challenges like rowing, sandbag lunges, sled pushes and burpees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Do I have a sandbag to rest my head on while all this melee is happening around me?'
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
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 commission asked farmers for ten thousand sandbag sacks—gunny, feed, or flour.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
“It’s the equivalent of putting a few sandbags out once the flood has already started,” George Catrambone, Americas head of fixed income at DWS Group, said of the beefed-up buyback plan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
In New Orleans, sandbags are being distributed to stave off flood waters.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"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
Mobile light towers were stationed outside alongside waste management trucks, and large stacks of sandbags were piled up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
As if through dark glass I could see him lying flat in his circle of sandbags, silent and scared, listening, telling himself it was all a trick of the dark.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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
At that time, the capital was a ghost town — its broad boulevards were empty, sandbagged and knotted with checkpoints.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
The ground-floor windows had been sandbagged, and every skylight cemented over.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Early on, the city braced for a potential Russian amphibious attack, shoring up defenses, sandbagging pastel-colored buildings, blocking off key approaches with antitank “hedgehogs” fashioned from steel beams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Crews spent Tuesday night sandbagging around the station.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
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
