embanked

past tense of embank

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for embanked
Verb
  • Two popular names with deep ties to the Pittsburgh region will be grouped this week at the PGA Tour's event in Bermuda.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Peters grouped India, Indonesia and Colombia among markets where Netflix still has considerable room to add subscribers and plans to maintain accessible entry-level prices.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Debris and old foods accumulated on the floor under the cookline, around the deli meat slicer and under the warewashing sink.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, for instance, has struggled with occupancy despite major marketing campaigns and has accumulated nearly $700 million in losses since 2017, according to the Financial Times.
    — Contessa Brewer,Ryan Ruggiero, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Where previously tanks and massed armed formations fought across relatively delineated front lines, now drones from either side battle in the sky.
    — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Only the dark bodies of container ships, crowned with blinking lights, massed along the sea’s horizon, as solid as a wall.
    — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Texas ran for 212 yards, and it all but put the game away on the ground until Ole Miss assembled an evening-ending combination of plays that led to a Hail Mary attempt to potentially win it.
    — Mac Engel October 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026
  • After a week of respecting the sanctity of spoilers, our critics have assembled to discuss the movie in detail.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The brand’s Peptide Detox shampoo, which adsorbs hard water deposits to thoroughly clean hair, has amassed 238,000 impressions on TikTok this month and can consistently be found topping the app’s section for popular searches.
    — Tracy Achonwa, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This new holiday collection comes at a busy time for Birkenstock, which has amassed quite an active release calendar.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Engineers use the physical measurements collected during core heating to test the accuracy of their mathematical reactor models.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The total revenue collected was $168,294 but the cost to the district was $731,323.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Their ordinary matter — their gas and dust — swirled about and got clumped up.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
  • When the researchers tested what the hydroxyl radicals could do, a common protein clumped together at the plastic surfaces — a sign that its structure had been damaged.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That's already very tightly bunched, but expanding it shows how close the margins are in college football this year.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Combed off her forehead and bunched at the back of her head, there’s something so diplomatic about Keri Russell‘s signature hairdo.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
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“Embanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embanked. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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