Sentence examples for sandbags a from inspiring English sources

Sandbags: a waste of time.

The owner's cousin was a subcommander of the region's military detachment, and the heavy machine gun he had set up to protect the bar was still on its sandbags — a testament to how dangerous things had been.

Others say it began in California in the 1940's, where tough Hispanic dandies with pencil-thin mustaches, zoot suits and slicked-back pompadours lowered their cars by filling their trunks with sandbags, a reaction to the conventional stock cars driven by the Anglo middle class.

The government says it is able to supply up to 10,000 sandbags a day to councils.

Monday I arrive in Kabul after a two and a half year absence, and there is much more construction, and a lot more sandbags, a sign at how much the security situation has deteriorated.

On Thursday evening, they suspended a huge sandbagging effort, one that included volunteers from New Orleans and Salt Lake City and produced up to 20,000 sandbags an hour, officials said.

Just ahead of where the pale blue United Nations flag still flew near an abandoned pile of sandbags, an Israeli backhoe was busily digging for a new border fence.

This painting, executed in 1960-61, is made up of two canvases with a rope, a sandbag and a pulley.

Not far away, a team of Mr. Dohman's volunteers hurried to sandbag a group home for the mentally handicapped.

That trend concerns critics like Bryony Worthington, the director of Sandbag, a nonprofit group based in London that is campaigning to make carbon trading more effective.

Hundreds of National Guardsmen and prison inmates continued to patrol and sandbag a levee known as the Sny, which stretches for more than 50 miles south of Quincy.