Examples of earthwork in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Currently, the earthwork is nearly gone and sits beneath a cemetery, per the Washington Post. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 The remaining images and evidence of the earthwork were illustrated in 1823 by United States Army Corps of Engineers and were drawn in a book called Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022 Weiss/Manfredi’s earthwork at the edge of Brooklyn represent mourning as a constriction, a movement from light to darkness and back again. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 Snipers, missileers and artillerymen on both sides wait for, and take potshots at, the enemy on the opposite earthwork. — David Axe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 The figure was long presumed to be ancient, but until recent decades no technologies existed for dating such an earthwork. — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021 Yet Dia remains very much the keeper of the Minimal-Conceptual-earthwork flame. — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021 Harvey Fite’s large-scale, walkable earthwork sculpture handcrafted with local bluestone is imbued with a mythic sensibility that will inspire awe in visitors of all ages. — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021 Native Americans shaped the 35-foot-tall earthwork as a ceremonial site between 1200 and 1730. — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 See More

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