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Meanings of sandbags in English

Portuguese
saco de areia
Spanish
saco terrero

Device commonly used in flood control and temporary military fortifications.

saco de areia
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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 English
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
Portuguese
saco de areia
Sandbags through the time
Sandbags across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common