Sentence examples for making sandbags from inspiring English sources

"All of us are making sandbags to protect us from the flood and getting washed out".

"We have done a lot of work, making sandbags and stone pitches to build up the embankments," he said.

While none has flooded yet, the council said the weather expected for Saturday looks set to increase the risk and it is making sandbags available.

At the behest of Quincy's mayor, Chuck Scholz, a center to make sandbags was opened at Quincy University, and an appeal for labor there went out over WGEM.

Along the Mississippi river in Alton, Illinois, about 25 miles north of St Louis, the city's mayor asked residents to volunteer to make sandbags along the river.

Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray urged residents to study emergency evacuation routes and said the mostly low-lying city would make sandbags available on Friday and Saturday.

City officials are asking for volunteers to help make sandbags and hope to increase their inventory to 500,000 sandbags to be used to shore up dikes and fill leaks.

Prisoners will make sandbags, fence posts and other kit for the army as part of a drive to teach them the "value of a hard day's work", the government has announced.

To avoid too high a resistance, sand particles of about 2 3 mm were selected to make sandbags with a diameter of about 5 cm.

But in the last year and a half, major health-club chains have begun making hefting sandbags and shaking 25-pound ropes the standard, ditching the fancy weight machines that have dominated gym floors for more than 30 years.

Plunked into the center of this was a barricade/bunker made of sandbags and sheets of faux, cast-plastic wood.