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seawall

noun

Definition of seawall

as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall 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 For example, building a seawall can be tied to a specific project or funding stream. — Bethany Tietjen, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 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

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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

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
Her remains were found in 1990 by accident, as fire department crews were responding to a traffic collision down an embankment near Highway 33 and Creek Road.

— Julie Sharp, CBS News, 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

Three dams along the Boardman River were taken out to reconnect coldwater streams and restore fish habitat.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Goaltenders Spencer Knight and Arvid Söderblom have tried their best to seal the leaks, but the dam has overflowed early on.

— Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 13 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

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