embanked

past tense of embank

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for embanked
Verb
  • Called the Marriott Bonvoy Outdoors, the stays are grouped by the types of activities travelers seek, whether that’s hiking near alpine lakes, snorkeling among coral reefs teeming with fish, or getting cozy in a cabin in the woods.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The eclectic designs can be displayed on their own, or they can be grouped together to form a funky gallery wall.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Toss the grapes in the olive oil and seasonings that have accumulated at the bottom of the pan.
    Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some food-safety inspections were temporarily halted, trash accumulated in national parks, federal landmarks and museums closed, and some airports shuttered checkpoints due to a shortage of Transportation Security Administration officers to screen passengers.
    Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Peasants massed in armed bands in one region, then another, and rebellion would break out even in areas far away.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Thousands of Filipinos massed in the capital on the main Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, a historic highway known by its acronym EDSA, many either clad in white or wearing a white ribbon, and braving extreme heat and rain.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Barreling through the first quarter, Western Hills amassed three more touchdowns from De’Anthony Monroe, Mohammed Soumahoro, and Jeremiah Stribling.
    Elijah Flowers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Around that time, a front-page story in The New York Times detailed how Dundon and others had amassed wealth by packaging risky auto loans made to low-income people and selling those loans as securities for hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Decked out in Tyvek suits and N95 respirators, the researchers collected meter-long cores from the permafrost layer, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • They were bunched by a couple of companies, and the openings were controlled by the companies, especially a company called Knight Trading Group.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • When it stays bunched together, moisture gets trapped in the folds, creating the perfect environment for mildew and mold growth.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Embanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embanked. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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