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 Each strand is like a beautiful clump of calligraphy all tangled up in itself, as captivating and lonely as any earthwork. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 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

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Noun

Her car sat upside down on an embankment, roughly a quarter-mile from the crash site, with all its windows shattered, the father said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of embankment

Noun

Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of rampart

Noun

Farther down, the levee that restrains the rivers is a low line of trees into the horizon.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Made to resemble the town’s levee (which held during the Flood of 1993), a full pie is loaded with 18 fresh apples and weighs a whopping 10 pounds.

— Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of levee

Noun

Critics have also focused on the role of international institutions like the World Bank, which has long supported some of these hydropower projects and their associated dams.

— Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
Separately, police said another woman was found dead on Sunday in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, her body wrapped in a duvet and dumped near a dam.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 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
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

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
Prime Minister Mark Carney embraced making Canada the EU’s first associate member, casting deeper economic, security and political ties with Europe as a bulwark for sovereignty and open markets.

— Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026