embanked

past tense of embank

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for embanked
Verb
  • Pantone grouped 20 of the new shades into four trend palettes demonstrating how its forecast for bolder color can take several markedly different forms.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Some were already set up in the street, grouped together holding banners and signs for the events.
    Jesse McLaren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The system is a maze in which laws collide with gray areas, where layers upon layers of policy have accumulated over decades in a pile waiting for reform that has never come.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Its fleet includes the MANTAS X-Class and Devil Ray Expeditionary Class platforms, which MARTAC says have accumulated thousands of operating hours across a range of conditions.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Thousands had massed in the same street just a few years before.
    Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
  • In this way, massed FPV drones can produce the same tactical and psychological effects traditionally generated by sustained artillery bombardment.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Dolce’s cool, reductive architectural sense, with its airy vistas and great open spaces inside and out (perfect for their energetic Labradors, Lola and her son, Dali), is cluttered with the eclectic bounty that Gabbana has assembled over the years.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The masa must then be mixed with fat, broth and salt and aerated to achieve the right consistency before the tamales can be assembled, carefully wrapped and cooked.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Grace & Stella’s eye-conic eye masks have amassed more than 49,000 positive reviews.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Buffett’s fortune has been amassed through Berkshire Hathaway stock.
    Michelle Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The pattern has been skewed by higher incomes collected by those in the higher echelons of wage workers, like corporate chief executives, entertainers and professional athletes.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Schlumberger also collected the early, experimental landscape triptych by Paul Cézanne from his famed fresco Paysage romantique aux pêcheurs (1862–64), originally for the artist’s family estate in southern France known as Jas de Bouffan.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • With all those stars clumped together, even fainter globular clusters will typically be easier to spot than the smaller variety.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • He's shifted the entire orchestra closer to the front of the stage at David Geffen Hall and had their seats bunched closer together.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Harold’s men waded into water with their tunics bunched around their bare thighs.
    John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
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“Embanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embanked. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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