Sentence examples for thin embankments from inspiring English sources

For quite thin embankments in particular, BS8006 designs a relatively strong and thus expensive geosynthetic (basal) reinforcement in comparison with other design models.

When the rivers swell, fragile embankments burst.

Normally, soils are placed in embankment dams in thin layers individually compacted by rolling.

"Who did you vote for in the last election?" asked the reporter, and offered his microphone to a thin, bearded man who was standing next to his shack on the embankment.

Serious damage to dams, dikes, embankments.

Trash dumps mar the river embankments.

Tunnels, embankments and trenches have been preserved.

The work on the embankments is described.

Some eskers resemble railroad embankments.

Earth embankments and concrete tunnels are being eroded.

In Baghdad and its environs, artificial embankments line the Tigris.