seawall

noun

Definition of seawallnext
as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall Three recent storms battered the shoreline, washing away sand, ripping apart sections of the historic boardwalk, and damaging the seawall and homes. — Luzdelia Caballero, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Anything in the way of that shifting line in the sand — a seawall, a road or sand berm — would have to hold against the pressure of that much water trying to move in. — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Other recent changes include Vice Mayor Rhonda Anderson’s 2025 initiative to offer a 20% discount in city permit fees for eligible living seawall or modular retrofit panel installations. — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026 The pilots of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 were blamed for crashing into a seawall in 2013, sending their jet cartwheeling down a runway in San Francisco, killing three people and injuring 187 others. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seawall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seawall
  1. breakwater
  2. jetty
  3. embankment
  4. levee
  5. dam
  6. 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
  • Among the tools available are sand berms, cobble berms (sand on top of small stones), jetties, dredging and relocating sand, and below-surface breakwaters.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The boat transfer from Kalambezi jetty, at one end of Victoria Falls town, to my Mpala Jena villa is itself a safari of sorts.
    — Charukesi Ramadurai, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of jetty
Noun
  • Sutter County Fire said the vehicle rolled about 10 feet down an embankment and caught fire with the driver trapped inside.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The vehicle went into an embankment about a mile north of the East Kuna Mora Road interchange and overturned, according to police.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of embankment
Noun
  • The state is pre-positioning more than 4 million sandbags, more than 50,000 feet of portable flood barriers and 400,000 tons of rock to repair levees.
    — Adrian Florido, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
  • It was meant to be part of the state treasury to restore water conveyance capacity and help fund delta levee projects down the road.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of levee
Noun
  • Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, inaugurated in September 2025 on the Blue Nile near Sudan, is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.
    — KHALED KAZZIHA, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Pressure over Nile waters Egypt relies almost entirely on the Nile as a source of water for its population and agriculture and has called Ethiopia’s upstream dam an existential threat.
    — Khaled Kazziha, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 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

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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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