How to Use embankment in a Sentence

embankment

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  • The force of the impact sent the SUV down an embankment north of the road.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In some spots, up to 10 feet of the embankment has worn away.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The two rays of light from points A and B meet at the midpoint, M, on the embankment.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • The car veered off the roadway, rolled down an embankment and hit a tree.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Troopers shut down the area around 10 a.m. to remove the box truck from the embankment.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The missile hit just above the joint where the building began to curve away from the embankment.
    — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The car then went down an embankment, hit a tree and caught on fire, state police said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Photos of the crash show the truck overturned down an embankment in dense brush.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The car then went down an embankment and hit a tree, causing the car to catch on fire, state police said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Ebler then lost control of the Mustang and crashed into the embankment.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Sapon told me that his favorite place in Irpin is the embankment.
    — Linda Kinstler, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • One of the six buses went through the wire barrier, down the embankment and overturned.
    — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • When the car stopped, police said the officers were able to pull the woman to safety from the bottom of the embankment.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The bus exited the north side of the roadway, struck an embankment and flipped, troopers wrote in the report.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The car then went down a slightly descending dirt embankment before the car’s front end struck the tree on the east side of the highway, the CHP said.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The front seat passenger was then ejected from the car, which stopped in an embankment.
    — Kate Marijolovic, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2023
  • The car slid into the guardrail, went airborne and rolled down an embankment, police said.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The driver traveled off the road and over an embankment, causing the tractor and trailer to roll over.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 29 July 2022
  • One of the victims hit was a female that had been thrown about halfway down the embankment, Flynn said.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 27 June 2023
  • Dozy excitedly moved up and down the embankment and got in part of the water by the door, but nothing was found.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2022
  • Once the cars hit a curve in the road, the Cobalt swerved into and side-swiped the Colorado, the impact of which forced it off the road, through a guardrail and down an embankment, Fifield said.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Green was driving a Chevrolet Cruz that left the road, struck an embankment, and overturned.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 July 2023
  • Both SUVs were sent off the right side of the road and down an embankment, authorities said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Pickens was driving a 2005 Kawasaki Ninja when the bike left the road and struck an embankment.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Video from OnScene TV shows a white cargo van on the sidewalk and embankment.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The vehicle veered off the north side of the roadway near Clevenger Canyon, went down an embankment and struck a boulder.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • The father’s vehicle was found crashed over an embankment, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, the service said.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • Teague drove north on Route 163 until the Honda hit a guardrail, then rolled down an embankment about a quarter-mile from the gas station.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The design that evolved was a 300-foot-wide gash in the city topography with a roadway lined by grassy embankments and trees.
    — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Green continued on for a short distance and went up an embankment until his car came to a stop.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 23 Nov. 2022

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