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seawall

noun

Definition of seawall

as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall Visitors can fish from either the beach or the seawall along the Matanzas River on the park's west boundary. — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 30 June 2026 Recently, similar repairs to the seawall of the nearby Tidal Basin cost $112 million. — New York Times, 26 June 2026 Newport Beach officials urged people living in properties adjacent to the harbor to take precautions like installing seawall plugs and placing sandbags in vulnerable areas. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 June 2026 Shore said the aging seawall is long overdue for reassessment. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for seawall

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Noun

The city is also looking at water circulation around the pier, specifically how the breakwater changes the environment, Parry said.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
The shark was apparently first found wedged in rocks by the breakwater at Salty Brine State Beach in Galilee, but then the shark freed itself and started swimming in circles.

— Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026

Definition of breakwater

Noun

It was towed into a nearby jetty to keep it from interfering with other boats’ navigation.

— Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
People should either stay out of the water or swim near lifeguards and avoid rock jetties, which can be deadly in such conditions, the weather service said.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

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Prosecutors alleged Stout lit a car on fire near popular swimming spots and pushed the burning vehicle down a 60-foot embankment in Upper Bidwell Park east of Chico, where the Park Fire started July 24, 2024.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
The crash is the second time someone has plunged their vehicle over the same embankment and died.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of embankment

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The other is the data gap itself, with unreliable or incomplete records common across stormwater systems, levees, schools and other sectors.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The town is worried about the effect the wall would have on a series of berms and levees built in the 1970s and 1980s along the Rio Grande and tributaries to combat flooding.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of levee

Noun

The Hoover Dam The Hoover Dam was the tallest dam in the world when it was completed, but that was in 1936.

— Chris Kelly, New Yorker, 28 July 2026
In 2011, the water district planned to strengthen the existing dam; officials said the cost would be $193 million, with construction beginning in 2017 and taking three years.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of dam

Noun

The company says the W-01 responds to risks from tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, marine submersion and dike or dam failures.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026
As the the dikes reached the seafloor, lava erupted onto the ocean floor, while continuing to drain the magma reservoir, causing the seafloor to collapse further, the researchers told ScienceAlert.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

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