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Meanings of embankment in English
Wall or bank to carry a road or rail over low ground or water's edge.
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Usage of embankment in English
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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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common