sandbag
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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
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
In each Hyrox race, participants alternate between running a kilometre and doing fitness exercises, such as the sled push, burpee jumps, indoor rowing, and lunges while carrying a sandbag.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
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 become a battle in which the weapons are sandbags, water pumps, sand berms and drainage canals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Crews worked to pump out the knee-high water and reinforce sandbags along the harbor side of the peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The city said it would provide sandbags at three locations and encouraged residents with private seawalls to reinforce them if necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Crews have also been installing thousands of sandbags in vulnerable parts of Balboa Island, the city said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
I had five sandbags, which I filled and put in front of me.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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 neo-Baroque opera house is no longer sandbagged, but the war still feels ever present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
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
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
“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
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