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Meanings of sandbags in anglès

portuguès
saco de areia
espanyol
saco terrero

Device commonly used in flood control and temporary military fortifications.

        saco de areia
        Synonyms
        Examples for "sandbag"
        Examples for "sandbag"
        1
        Fred Grainger watched the national guardsman place the last sandbag on Hoover-Two.
        Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
        2
        The community has also erected sandbag walls to protect itself from landslides.
        The South African
        3
        The phrase fell on the apprentice like a sandbag, and he vanished.
        Clayhanger
        4
        Our line runs across this Crucifix Valley in a strong sandbag barricade.
        The Old Front Line
        5
        His sudden misfortune had been like the stunning blow of a sandbag.
        The Mountebank
        Usage of sandbags in anglès
        1
        Right down on the ground, right behind sandbags or in fighting holes.
        World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
        2
        When do we need to have the second phase of sandbags done?
        Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
        3
        The last line of sandbags is to blame the weather as extraordinary.
        The Guardian
        4
        Officials were distributing sandbags to businesses that could be threatened by floodwaters.
        Reuters
        5
        He had started to fix the sandbags himself when he got it.
        My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
        6
        The public buildings were barricaded with sandbags and guarded with machine guns.
        The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) / The War Begins,...
        7
        Others were ripping up our sandbags here and there along the line.
        The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
        8
        They were piling sandbags about the various huts and over their roofs.
        Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
        9
        Another one wilted and fell forward across the sandbags -then blackness.
        "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
        10
        My ass is seriously dragging; it feels like my shoes are sandbags.
        Wired
        11
        There were sandbags piled on top of them, and ladders going up.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        12
        I'm talking sandbags so stiff you can only assume they are typos.
        Climbing Magazine
        13
        Climbing down from the tower, he passed sandbags piled against the wall.
        The book of spies
        14
        That working-party, filling sandbags just behind the machine-gun emplacement, are actually singing.
        All in It : K(1) Carries On
        15
        Even got some sandbags piled up at the back of his boathouse.
        Acts of nature
        16
        An obstruction of sandbags to impede the enemy's traffic into your trench.
        "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
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        Translations for sandbags
        portuguès
        saco de areia
        espanyol
        saco terrero
        Sandbags through the time
        Sandbags across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common