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 As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for earthwork

Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthwork

Noun

Sutter County Fire said the vehicle rolled about 10 feet down an embankment and caught fire with the driver trapped inside.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The vehicle went into an embankment about a mile north of the East Kuna Mora Road interchange and overturned, according to police.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of embankment

Noun

There are also plenty of literary peers repping the ramparts, from Sophie Kemp to Patricia Lockwood to Zadie Smith.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
The compact coastal town is known for its whitewashed medina, brightly painted murals and imposing Portuguese-era ramparts overlooking the ocean.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of rampart

Noun

As Reclamation District 108 leaves some fields dry, the goal will be to move a levee back so the river can spread out, restoring a natural floodplain, Bair said.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
In the winter of 2022-2023, several consecutive powerful storms led to a levee breach, which caused significant flooding along the Cosumnes River, killing three people.

— Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of levee

Noun

Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, inaugurated in September 2025 on the Blue Nile near Sudan, is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.

— KHALED KAZZIHA, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Pressure over Nile waters Egypt relies almost entirely on the Nile as a source of water for its population and agriculture and has called Ethiopia’s upstream dam an existential threat.

— Khaled Kazziha, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of dam

Noun

In Colombia’s Ciénaga Grande, roads and dikes disrupted the flow of seawater and freshwater from the 1950s onward, contributing to one of the largest mangrove die-offs on record.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Chinese Nationalist forces breached the river’s dikes near Huayuankou to slow advancing Japanese troops.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 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
Lifeguards from the department swam to the breakwater, rescued Dubray and brought her aboard a fire boat.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of breakwater

Noun

The automaker is positioning this new lineup as its bulwark against the flood of Chinese imports that is currently decimating other European brands.

— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2026
Yet the episode also offered evidence of how natural resources provide a bulwark against an adversarial White House.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026