Thesaurus results for EARTHWORK

earthwork

noun

Definition of earthwork

as in embankment

a raised bank or wall made of soil

—usually plural prehistoric earthworks

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Recent Examples of earthwork Artist Stan Herd created a massive quarter-acre Algerian flag earthwork near the Lied Center on west campus. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026 More than 200 of these earthworks have been preserved at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026 From 2016, project teams were flying weekly missions and creating a Google Earth-consistent aerial record of earthworks at centimeter resolution and accuracy. — Mike Winn, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 This is around the same time that the first earthworks at Stonehenge were built, while the famous stones weren’t put in place until 500 years later. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for earthwork

Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthwork

Noun

How levees work Levees are earthen embankments positioned parallel to a river that effectively raise the height of the banks of the river to prevent overflow when the river swells.

— Kaleigh Yost, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
As the road curved, Garcia went down an embankment and hit a tree at 101 mph, according to the district attorney's office.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of embankment

Noun

Join rangers and living historians of the Fort McHenry Guard for the morning flag change and help raise the Star-Spangled Banner o’er the ramparts of the historic star fort.

— The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026
There’s fighting in the streets, along the ramparts, hot oil poured on men climbing ladders.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of rampart

Noun

However, those levees are aging, and funding to maintain and improve them is becoming scarcer.

— Kaleigh Yost, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
After Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, the failure of New Orleans’ federal levee system inundated about 80% of the city in floodwaters.

— JACK BROOK, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of levee

Noun

In some ways, shorebirds are analogous to the wolves that hunt the deer and elk populations that eat the tree saplings that become the trees that beavers use to build dams that help the fish—and so on.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Three other similar crypto farms were found last year in the vicinity of the nearby hydroelectric dam in northern Puebla.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of dam

Noun

Chinese Nationalist forces breached the river’s dikes near Huayuankou to slow advancing Japanese troops.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
Like many inland dikes, the barrier in agricultural fields near the small town of Waddinxveen, east of The Hague, is made of peat that needs to be damp to be strong enough to hold back water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of dike

Noun

NGOs reported that more than 140 people died in the attempt to cross into the territory, including some who drowned or were trampled in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
He was pulled from the lake’s cold water near the Government Pier breakwater in the main channel of Waukegan Harbor by rescue divers.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of breakwater

Noun

Until this week, Mokha had been home to a vital part of the anti-Houthi coalition and served as a bulwark against the rebels’ advance.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
The idea that the state is so reliably progressive, and needs to remain a bulwark against conservative federal politics, ran through the primary.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026