Sentence examples for retaining wall from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth
The retaining wall needs a retaining wall.
A retaining wall performs that job, a retaining wall that almost miraculously appears intact.
Burtynsky was particularly interested in the project's ocean retaining wall.
The stone will be laid temporarily in a retaining wall.
The car went straight up, into a retaining wall".
He spun and hit an inside retaining wall head-on.
When it came time to build the 9/11 memorial, a retaining wall had to be built around this retaining wall.
You would never drive with him; he would crash the car into the nearest retaining wall.
The back of the shell acts as a retaining wall, while steel columns support the front.
The hives stood in the shelter of a stone retaining wall beneath an old elderberry tree.
"They called my retaining wall a planter," said Glenn Giordano, barely retaining his outrage.
