abutment

How To Use abutment In A Sentence

• Concrete-filled cast iron cylinders and concrete abutments form the foundations.
• Many engineering construction utilize embankment, for, abutment , retaining wall , foundation pad , base backfill and so on.
• Having reached the abutments we excavated a chamber to accommodate explosives in readiness to destroy these bridges. Alan Glass
• Those hot-rodding growth funds hit the financial equivalent of a bridge abutment in 2000.
• Without even noticing the rumble strips, she slammed into a bridge abutment and rolled over several times into a dry riverbed. Fatal Error
• They can be configured for linear, square, or rectangular excavations to depths of 30 ft. or more for such uses as pipelines, pits, retaining walls, and bridge abutments.
• Doubly delicious, we are supposed to believe, since we get a big word like "abutments". Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)
• This carefully orchestrated progression was upset soon after it was created: in January 1938, ice pushed the Honeymoon Bridge off of its abutments, causing it to collapse.
• Although the main span of the aqueduct was torn down when the Key Bridge was built in 1923, the old abutments remain on both the D.C. and Virginia sides. Little-known infrastructure
• The northwest front has now five arches with ramparts fallen in; northeast barbette battery unserviceable; east front scarp much scaled by slant fire, with large craters under traverses; principal injury at level of arches and terreplein; two-thirds of southern wall east of magazine damaged; stone abutment unhurt and protected by rubbish; gorge not damaged since yesterday. Memoirs of the War of Secession