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seawall

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Definition of seawall

as in breakwater

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Recent Examples of seawall Instead, massive swells swallowed the berms and slammed through a seawall earlier this month, damaging a number of homes on the Long Beach peninsula. — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Sand berms have been rebuilt and there are new reinforcements along the seawall where waves from Hurricane Marie broke the boardwalk apart. — Alys Martinez, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 For example, building a seawall can be tied to a specific project or funding stream. — Bethany Tietjen, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026 The pilots of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 were blamed for crashing into a seawall in 2013, sending their jet cartwheeling down a runway in San Francisco, killing three people and injuring 187 others. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seawall

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NGOs reported that more than 140 people died in the attempt to cross into the territory, including some who drowned or were trampled in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Lifeguards from the department swam to the breakwater, rescued Dubray and brought her aboard a fire boat.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of breakwater

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In August, sand erosion exposed a pair of jetties that were built decades ago to stop beach erosion and protect oceanfront homes near the entrance of Newport Harbor.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Low tide exposed the concrete and rock infrastructure — known as groins and jetties — used to shore up the beach a half-century ago.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of jetty

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Search crews found Granbery on Sunday at the bottom of a steep embankment along Cabin Creek.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Granbery was located on Sunday at the bottom of a steep embankment with multiple significant injuries from a fall and from exposure, and was airlifted to a medical center to receive treatment, Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of embankment

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Chinese Nationalist forces breached the river’s dikes near Huayuankou to slow advancing Japanese troops.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
Like many inland dikes, the barrier in agricultural fields near the small town of Waddinxveen, east of The Hague, is made of peat that needs to be damp to be strong enough to hold back water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026

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