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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

He added that locals have been trying, "to sandbag as many buildings as we can", as well as board up windows and get the island's clam farms secured.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

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

“I think people see us and it looks like there’s a barrier of entry with the sandbags and all,” said Anthony Gudenau, who joins Sandbag Saturdays regularly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

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

Malcolm stepped over the sandbags, and Asta became a robin, and then changed back to a jackdaw.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

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

The hallmarks of a wartime capital, though, were unmistakable: sandbagged statuary, rusted “hedgehog” tank traps, checkpoints on roads leading to the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

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

“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

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