Thesaurus results for EMBANKMENT

embankment

noun

im-ˈbaŋk-mənt

Definition of embankment

as in levee

a bank of earth constructed to control water the embankment is steep, so be careful walking along the ridge

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Recent Examples of embankment The vehicle rolled 200-300 feet down an embankment, the CHP stated. — City News Service, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2026 Rogers was allegedly evasive when asked how his truck had gone off the road and down an embankment and started to walk away from the trooper toward a nearby picnic table with a crossbow and several arrows on it, state police said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 Authorities said Roberts fell to his death from a steep embankment. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026 In August that same year, a 57-year-old hiker from Los Angeles County reportedly drove his car off a steep embankment. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for embankment

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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

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In some ways, shorebirds are analogous to the wolves that hunt the deer and elk populations that eat the tree saplings that become the trees that beavers use to build dams that help the fish—and so on.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Three other similar crypto farms were found last year in the vicinity of the nearby hydroelectric dam in northern Puebla.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026

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