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earthwork

[ UK /ˈɜːθwɜːk/ ]
[ US /ˈɝθˌwɝk/ ]
NOUN
  1. an earthen rampart

How To Use earthwork In A Sentence

  • Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers. FOXNews.com
  • Cross the road for an enormous show of Liverpool-born Tony Cragg's hefty colored sculptures, some of which are dotted about the glorious permanent architectural "landform" earthwork by Charles Jencks in front of the building. An Explosion of Visual Arts
  • Overlooking Hollybush to the north is a huge prehistoric earthwork, no doubt associated with the more complex one on the Herefordshire Beacon, but largely enclosed by thick, hanging woods. Country diary: Malvern Hills
  • The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
  • Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive earthworks were built.
  • By his time only some of the earthworks, and the outer defence that was part of the city wall, survived.
  • Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
  • There was nothing hurried or hastily thought-out about their earthworks. TREASON KEEP
  • The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
  • Namibia is believed to have offered Ramatex a 20-year tax holiday, free wharfage, free earthworks at the factory site and free electricity infrastructure up to the factory site.
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