Sentence examples for building a bulkhead from inspiring English sources

The Weinmanns said they would be amenable to the city's building a bulkhead along the edge of the land's curving spit and etching a narrow path to make the esplanade continuous.

"...a far-reaching plan... to protect New York City from the threat of rising sea levels and powerful storm surges by building an extensive network of flood walls, levees and bulkheads along its 520 miles of coast..

'Face the bulkhead!' they ordered, but I didn't know what a bulkhead was.

"Instead of having a bulkhead for a sign," Mr. Daly said, "we have what may be a bulkhead for a sign plus additional floor space over the sidewalk".

The disturbed man wheeled, grabbed her and tossed her into a bulkhead.

"And down below," said Hancock, "a bulkhead disintegrated into a thousand bits of carbon".

The beach has a bulkhead, and a shed for storing kayaks.

At 25 Carroll Street, an industrial building converted to 17 condominiums in the Columbia Street waterfront area of Brooklyn, the developer Alex Barrett of Barrett Design and Development lowered two shipping containers onto the rooftop in October to serve as a bulkhead housing a stairway, an elevator shaft and mechanical space.

The site has created a need not felt elsewhere: a bulkhead sea wall repair is being done for $7.2 million.

A bulkhead of an oil tanker is chosen for this investigation.

Each was separated from its neighbour by a bulkhead running the width of the ship; there were fifteen bulkheads in all.