How to Use riprap in a Sentence

riprap

noun

• The concrete guide wall is on top of 80-year-old wood pilings and riprap.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2018
• Borders of rough rocks, such as large chunks of limestone or riprap, can be added along the edges of ponds.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
• Sheepshead remain a good bet around the gas rigs, riprap and hard bottom in the lower bay on live shrimp.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Feb. 2020
• Extensive riprap at the base of the bluffs have likely slowed the erosion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019
• Try in the riprap areas using crank baits, plastic worms or spinner baits.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• The riprap areas can be good for squarebills, jerkbaits and crankbaits—anything that can be bounced off the rocks.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Feb. 2021
• This can also be prime time around riprap walls exposed to the afternoon sun--the rocks tend to warm up and hold heat.
  — Joe Songer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• But the missing picnic table near the riprap turned my schadenfreude into guilt.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Both suggested fishing the riprap, gravel and rock areas for the pre-spawn fish.
  — Terry Wickstrom, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
• Reds are more often found on shell bottom and around riprap where there’s current flowing to bring bait past them—live shrimp or jigs get them.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 June 2021
• Topwaters work over the beds, above hydrilla and coontail that has not topped out and along hard edges like seawalls and riprap banks.
  — Joe Songer, AL.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Lakefront homeowners are scrambling to add seawalls or riprap, slopes of rock or concrete that block waves.
  — Mario Koran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2021
• Part of that work involved adding rocks, also known as riprap, to the shoreline to try and keep water from encroaching.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2020
• Soon, a train hauling 24 gondolas and groaning with tons of riprap inched toward us.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The county plans to use the eastern stretch of the river’s banks to store 5,100 tons of riprap and sand.
  — Alma Fausto, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2017
• Keeper reds are around the gas rigs, points, riprap and bridge pilings, taking live croakers and shrimp as well as jigs with soft plastic tails.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 13 Aug. 2021
• Just beyond the café’s broad windows, the waves of the Bering Sea batter the granite riprap frontage.
  — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• The clay slope was covered with a layer of cement and heavy stones, and the downstream slope was made of earth and massive boulders called riprap.
  — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• The commission hired a contractor to stabilize banks with riprap.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023
• Blue catfish over 60 pounds are present; bass – good in the riprap areas using crank baits, plastic worms or spinner baits.
  — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018
• Smallmouth poor, but can be caught along the shoreline and riprap face of the dam using spoons and shallow crankbaits; white bass fair lakewide on jigs and minnows.
  — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
• In Miami-Dade, that’s why new seawalls are required to have a pile of rocks — known as riprap — at their base.
  — Alex Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2022
• The river here runs in a channel enclosed in stretches of rocky riprap barriers, which were built decades ago after floods washed out homes.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• In recent weeks, contractors have added more boulders to the existing riprap along the beach to protect the railroad.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
• Beneath the sandy hummocks are riprap and cobblestones, substances that were already in the area before the project began.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2019
• The Corps proposed strengthening the bank by implementing riprap, or rocks.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
• The second was that the riprap stones shoring up the slope from the sidewalk were originally loose and small enough that people could walk off with them, Polensek said.
  — James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
• The law also prohibits people from sitting on, climbing or otherwise hanging out on the rocks, called riprap, next to the promenade.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• In 2015, the town placed tons of boulders into the river as riprap preventing further movement of the slope.
  — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 22 June 2017
• The latest round of emergency work began with the repair and replacement of boulder riprap from April through June.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025