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seawall

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Definition of seawall

as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall Visitors can fish from either the beach or the seawall along the Matanzas River on the park's west boundary. — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 30 June 2026 Recently, similar repairs to the seawall of the nearby Tidal Basin cost $112 million. — New York Times, 26 June 2026 Newport Beach officials urged people living in properties adjacent to the harbor to take precautions like installing seawall plugs and placing sandbags in vulnerable areas. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 June 2026 In March last year, one permit proposal called for repairs to the bluff below 5322 Calumet, extending an erodible concrete seawall — which is designed to recede at the same pace as the earth around it — that was built after a bluff failure in 2010. — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for seawall

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The city is also looking at water circulation around the pier, specifically how the breakwater changes the environment, Parry said.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
The shark was apparently first found wedged in rocks by the breakwater at Salty Brine State Beach in Galilee, but then the shark freed itself and started swimming in circles.

— Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026

Definition of breakwater

Noun

The house sits on a road tucked alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains to a rail yard in the village of fewer than 1,000 residents.

— Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
The house where the children were found sits on a road tucked away alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains through Hamden.

— CBS News, CBS News, 1 July 2026

Definition of embankment

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The river has risen again and again, and in 1993, the Mississippi did not go over the levee, at first, but under it, burrowing a tunnel like a prisoner seeking freedom.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Concerned the barrier would not hold, the plant manager ordered two more backup levees built closer to the plant.

— Kansas City Public Library staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026

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Other risks to metal production from El Nino include the potential for aluminum and zinc shortages caused by low water levels in hydroelectric dams in China’s southern Yunnan province.

— Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Montezuma County officials also ordered evacuations for private lands in the lower Dolores River corridor, from the dam to Bradfield Bridge, Ferris fire officials said.

— Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 30 June 2026

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