Sentence examples for berm to from inspiring English sources

I pulled onto the left-hand berm to investigate.

Officials said they would cut a path through the berm to get the equipment in.

They ultimately approved the use of only one barrier, called a berm, to be paid for by BP.

The celery should be ready to harvest from September on, by carefully breaking open the berm to extract the gleaming white stems.

The project would take months — at least three for the first berm to be built and six or more for the whole project to be finished — causing some experts and federal officials to wonder whether it would do any good.

The $15 million plan by Olin Partnership, a noted landscape architecture firm, shows a lush circular island ringed by tall trees, fountains and a landscaped berm to muffle traffic noise.

Backhoes and bulldozers build berms to stop potential suicide bombers.

He called on the federal government to approve a plan to build sand berms to protect the bayou country.

A slick, snowy hill is divided into chutes, with high snow berms to prevent people from sliding into each other.

On the southwest coast of Washington, that state is considering building 25-foot-high berms to which people could evacuate; the berms would be intended to withstand the 18-foot waves a tsunami could generate.

We rip down the steep, open face using the enormous berms to carry our speed over tabletop jumps and into a short straight.