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Significats de embankment en anglès
Wall or bank to carry a road or rail over low ground or water's edge.
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Examples for "dyke"
Examples for "dyke"
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The Makololo guided the canoes admirably through the opening in the dyke.
2
No time was lost in breaking through the dyke in several places.
3
The flood-battered Changkai dyke near Fuzhou suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday.
4
I read in the paper that you're some sort of fucking dyke.
5
On either side of the dyke was the water, black and silent.
1
He was not worried that the water would actually breach the dike.
2
What's going to happen to the dike, after two months of floodwater?
3
If the men could touch the dike before the fire, they won.
4
Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
5
Grant guessed it would take four more passes to open the dike.
1
The next day they were at the prince's levée, and introduced by Edward.
2
When the king's levée was announced, the persons not presented withdrew.
3
It's a long time since you have been at a levée.
4
The Queen held a levée on Friday, for gentlemen only.
5
Who would go to a levée in a straw hat?
1
There have been 13 trucks and three diggers working to repair the stopbank.
2
The council will buy the land to put a new stopbank along the river banks.
3
Photo: RNZ The Bay of Plenty Regional Council hoped to finish work on the stopbank tonight.
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Work has started to repair the stopbank breach.
5
Sir Michael Cullen is heading an independent review into the breach of the Rangitaiki River stopbank.
1
The chimneys of the Eel's Foot came into view along the floodbank.
2
Other spectators were already crowding along the high floodbank, between the flares.
3
I know where we can borrow a boat on the floodbank down there.
4
It said new information about the state of the nearby floodbank delayed the re-start.
5
RNZ reporter Tim Brown is on the floodbank in Gore.
Ús de embankment en anglès
1
I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
And a moment later Drusus saw the general coming up the embankment.
3
He had paused on the brink of a crevasse in the embankment.
4
The embankment dropped several feet down into the water weeds and mangroves.
5
The city bus was almost as long as the embankment was high.
6
There was yet another embankment off the side where Martin had gone.
7
She had crossed the last embankment of agony; her struggle was finished.
8
The remnant of the Belgian Army had retired to the railroad embankment.
9
The marines were equally successful along the line of the railway embankment.
10
Leonard clambered up the steps of the embankment, followed by the others.
11
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment.
12
She jumped out of the carriage and ran down the railway embankment.
13
Henry saw the brown faces and the embankment coming closer and closer.
14
Across the railroad embankment it chopped the inundation into small crested waves.
15
There was no time for discussion at the top of the embankment.
16
As well call the garish new building on the embankment Sion College.
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