seawall

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Recent Examples of seawall The stone seawall that Hoffa built by hand with his son James, remains as strong as ever. Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025 In 1973: Delta Flight 723 crashed into a seawall while landing amid a heavy fog at Logan International Airport in Boston, killing 88 of the 89 passengers and crew on board. Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 1 Aug. 2025 An 8-mile-long string of inhabitable artificial islands that will double as a seawall protecting the 31-mile-wide country’s entire southeastern coast. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 23 July 2025 The La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee gave its support July 15 to a plan to build a coastal bluff seawall at 5360 Calumet Ave. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for seawall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seawall
Noun
  • The Bayfront And Barge By the water, a giant ornamental stone barge juts into Biscayne Bay, designed to resemble a Venetian boat and double as a breakwater.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Stahl said officials believe the boy drowned near the breakwaters, although that has yet to be confirmed.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Hernandez hoped the wind off the jetty would drown them out.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Strong longshore currents can sweep swimmers and surfers into rip currents, piers, jetties and other hazardous areas.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Family, friends and spectators line the embankments, looking down from pedestrian bridges and the underpasses, holding up signs and cheering.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The impact sent both vehicles spinning down the embankment.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As levees erupted, storm waters easily flowed in.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But when the levees failed, thousands of people were trapped inside as supplies dwindled and conditions deteriorated quickly.
    Sarah Alegre, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Although more expensive and labor-intensive, the practice replaces much of the Central Valley’s roughly 500,000 acres of rice with temporary wetlands during the winter, a semblance of how the land would naturally function without dams, and levees and civilization.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Fifteen years ago, Mexican attorney Alma Barraza immersed herself in a legal fight to win fair compensation for indigent villagers who lost their property when the government seized land to build a dam.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Park staff partially opened the valve in July after heavy rain caused water levels to overflow the dike, raising erosion concerns.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
  • By taking down part of the old dike and building a new one farther back, the project has given the river some breathing room, expanding the floodplain.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025

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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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