sandbag
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After sending an unmanned ground vehicle into the tunnel, Khartiia soldiers saw that Russian troops had created sandbag barricades dotted with machine guns at points throughout the structure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
A sandbag distribution site at a parking lot located at 5400 E. Ocean Blvd. will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. beginning Friday and lasting through the weather event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
When he reached the sandbag, Jorgenson stopped and turned and shouted out my name, then he placed his rifle muzzle up against the white sandbag.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
But the reality was that the city was on a war footing, a 4-foot wall of sand and rows of sandbags blocking off an ocean determined to reach the sidewalks nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Despite the uncertainty, Sharp said one thing is clear: “I can guarantee you no one is moving because of this, but we’re keeping our sandbags ready.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Doctors described how sandbags were set up to protect the building.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Some houses in the neighborhood already had piles of sandbags sitting on their front porches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The streets are nothing but boarded windows and sandbags.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
While shop owners sandbagged the entrances to their stores and boarded up the doors and windows, there was little sense of impending disaster.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
"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
"We are ready to endure this," Olena Zelenska asserts when we sit down in a heavily secured compound tucked inside a sandbagged labyrinth of buildings in Kyiv.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022
Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to inundation.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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
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
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
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