How to Use embankment in a Sentence

embankment

noun

• The force of the impact sent the SUV down an embankment north of the road.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• The car veered off the road and came to a stop in an embankment.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
• The truck storms the embankment, throws its front tires over the top . .
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2018
• The impact of the crash sent the Civic up an embankment to the right of the freeway.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
• In some spots, up to 10 feet of the embankment has worn away.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
• The two rays of light from points A and B meet at the midpoint, M, on the embankment.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• The car struck a guardrail and came to rest against some trees on a small embankment.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The car went up an embankment, struck a tree and caught fire.
  — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
• And right away, the 60 or so men in a tight crowd led them down the embankment, toward the fortress.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 12 Oct. 2021
• The car went off the road and rolled down an embankment in Calabasas.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence, 2 Sep. 2019
• The embankment was, in part, the result of the building of the Charles River Dam.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The car veered off the roadway, rolled down an embankment and hit a tree.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Troopers then found the driver of the car that went off the embankment.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2025
• Troopers shut down the area around 10 a.m. to remove the box truck from the embankment.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2022
• The missile hit just above the joint where the building began to curve away from the embankment.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• Video of the rescue shows the crumpled truck on its side up against a tree on the steep embankment.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
• The driver drove up on a grass embankment and ran out of fuel, the tweets said.
  — Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
• The car came to stop on its wheels facing south on a dirt embankment.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• Just off the trail down a silty embankment, the Sandy River sat glassy in the bright morning light.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
• The flames spread up an embankment toward a fence near a home.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
• The vehicle went down the embankment and struck a tree.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2020
• Frasher said the plane rolled down an embankment and crashed into a fence at the edge of a road.
  — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• The car hit the truck and crashed into a railroad embankment.
  — Jared Goffinet, The Enquirer, 28 July 2021
• The car then went over an embankment and landed in the river.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The car then went down an embankment, hit a tree and caught on fire, state police said.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
• Photos of the crash show the truck overturned down an embankment in dense brush.
  — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• The front driver’s side of the F-350 struck the left rear side of the Sable, causing the Sable to spin out of control and come to a rest in an embankment.
  — Caitlin Keating, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2018
• The front driver’s side of the F-350 struck the left rear side of the Sable, causing the Sable to spin out of control and come to a rest in an embankment.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2018
• The girls’ bodies were about 75 yards away, down a small embankment.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
• The girls were found down an embankment, roughly the length of a football field away from Decker's truck, the detective wrote.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 4 June 2025