sandbag
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County’s map of free sandbag distribution sites can be found here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Exercises in the competition are similar to those found in athletic gyms, such as burpee broad jumps and sandbag lunges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
They constructed elaborate barricades with concrete, sandbags and razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“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
In response, the company introduced a wind-assist kit—a pair of cables, clips and sandbags that can keep the fabric from drooping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
They built barricades with sandbags and paving stones that they pried loose from the main courtyard.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Scholz visited Reichertshofen, north of Munich, inspecting a sandbagged river bank and meeting regional officials including Markus Söder, Bavaria’s governor.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 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
Members of the Coast Guard also served as courtroom security guards at military commission hearings and staffed sandbagged seaside bunkers that the military called “battle positions.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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
“We’ll have to inform everybody simultaneously, as soon as possible. I want to start with Fred Murphy at the C.D.C. I don’t want him to be sandbagged by this.”
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
“I completely sympathize and understand what they’re trying to do, but perhaps they should focus on protecting, sandbagging around their property.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
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
