How to Use abutment in a Sentence

abutment

noun
  • The car crashed into a bridge abutment.
  • So the plane slides the whole length of this runway and up on an abutment and breaks in half.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Phillips said the abutments that support the bridge are in good shape and will remain.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • The vehicle crossed the creek at a high speed and hit the abutment on the other side of the creek.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2022
  • What Barbara wants to do is avoid driving off the road or into a bridge abutment.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
  • What Barbara wants to do is avoid driving off the road, or into a bridge abutment.
    — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 8 July 2019
  • Poetry is dense and depends on the abutment of words and thoughts and ideas and suggestions.
    — Ann Reynolds, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The truck went through a guardrail into the center median and struck a concrete bridge abutment.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 26 June 2017
  • As many as 50 had called the camp, nestled between a freeway abutment and railroad tracks, home.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Obviously our bridge; The abutment is gone.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • The abutments — one on each bank — and a pier in the river's center, are remnants of an old railroad bridge that used to exist there.
    — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The car veered back onto the road and started to spin before slamming sideways into a concrete bridge abutment.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The district will be pouring concrete abutments and setting the bridge in the forest preserve back in place during the work.
    — Beacon-News Staff, Aurora Beacon-News, 14 June 2019
  • Voss said concrete underneath the bridge had decayed partly from salt entering the seams of the abutments over time.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • Da Vinci would have added what are known as wing walls, abutments out to the side of the bridge, steadying it during harsh conditions.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Behind the wooden facings of the abutments now lie concrete and steel pilings with a 50-year design life.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 10 June 2026
  • Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • On each of the two bridges, four pilings 4 feet in diameter and as much as 80 feet deep were attached to the sides of each abutment.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • At the site, the six printed segments were positioned onto standard concrete abutments.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • The substructure, or the portion that supports the deck where piers and abutments are located, is also in fair condition.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • It will be put in place after new abutments are built, USFS officials say.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Over the past several weeks, work crews have painted the abutments in Briganti-Dunn’s colors.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Work on the bridge began in 2021 and included replacing the abutments, support piers and bridge deck.
    — Michelle Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
  • The psychic catastrophe of unapproachable canyon houses, windows that functioned as one-way glass, rooms locked in abutment, like coffins.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Metro’s plan is to remove and dispose of the steel framing, concrete abutments and footers and regrade and revegetate the area, Ashe said.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • The Coast Guard restricted passage beneath the old bridge to the space between the two center abutments, a span of a few hundred feet.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In many cases, the bridge abutments are some of the highest points on the islands, and residents have jammed their cars onto the relatively higher pieces of ground.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The semi sailed through the intersection and struck a bridge abutment supporting RTD light rail trains.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In the case of the Avon site, the DOT project required deep excavation for the construction of bridge abutments.
    — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 11 Dec. 2019

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