abutment

Example Sentences

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“When you’re plowing the road you need to know where the bridge abutment is and where the expansion joints are so you don’t hook that with a plow,” LaBoe said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021

In a fatal crash in Mountain View, Calif., in 2018, a Tesla running on Autopilot drove head-on into a concrete abutment.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

There was a stone abutment retaining wall with rocks on the other side and the ocean below.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2021

Two women were killed and six others were injured early Sunday after a boat they were in struck a concrete abutment off the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, authorities said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015

I scrambled back up the bank to the bridge’s abutment.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith