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Recent Examples of seawallThe 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
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.
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Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
Stahl said officials believe the boy drowned near the breakwaters, although that has yet to be confirmed.
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.
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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.
Park staff partially opened the valve in July after heavy rain caused water levels to overflow the dike, raising erosion concerns.
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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.
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