(n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
(n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two embankments destroyed by the army on Thursday were near the cities of Muzaffargarh and Multan.
(2) A few escaped by running down the embankment but most of the rest were arrested.
(3) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
(4) The Metropolitan police, which is thought to be expecting 15,000 protesters, said it had been in discussions with the NUS and other groups planning to march along the Embankment.
(5) In September Yamadayev blamed Kadyrov and promised to take revenge after his older brother Ruslan was assassinated while driving along the embankment of the Moscow river.
(6) A barium meal study and endoscopy revealed a huge crater surrounded by a thick embankment on the posterior wall of the stomach body.
(7) It is moving to a smaller HQ, the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment, which has stood empty since late 2011.
(8) However, it will not include the famous revolving sign, which is moving with the force to its new headquarters on Victoria Embankment.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Ukrainian flag being taken down from the top of Moscow’s Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building on 20 August, 2014.
(10) The project will create potentially dangerous crowd pressures on nearby parts of the southern Thames embankments that haven’t been studied.
(11) • The front of the march is due to leave the Embankment at noon arriving at Hyde Park for the rally at around 1.30pm.
(12) By the time of the Kinnego embankment bombing, 168 RUC officers had lost their lives.
(13) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port.
(14) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
(15) According to the TUC people are still likely to be crossing the start line on the Embankment at 2pm so organisers are calling on people to stagger their arrival times between 10.30am and 1.30pm.
(16) Her body was found by chance in 2003, near a beach on the Cooley Peninsula, across the border in Co Louth, after a heavy storm washed away part of an embankment.
(17) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port, which is being developed by the Indian firm Adani to export coal extracted from its huge Carmichael mine in central Queensland.
(18) One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment.
(19) As well as the Bank of England vault on Threadneedle Street, there are thought to be six commercial vaults across London, with one rumoured to be below JPMorgan’s offices on Victoria Embankment .
(20) According to these conditions, any march by protesters must begin from Trafalgar Square and stay within an area bounded by the square, Northumberland Avenue, Victoria Embankment, Bridge Street, Parliament Square, Parliament Street and Whitehall.
Promenade
Definition:
(n.) A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
(n.) A place for walking; a public walk.
(v. i.) To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Flowers and written tributes are laid on the Promenade des Anglais.
(2) • In Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, seafront properties along the promenade were again evacuated to a rest centre at a local school.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The beach and the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, photographed on Sunday.
(4) Everyone is so positive,” said Jodie Evans , a co-founder of Code Pink, as her troupe advanced down Third Street Promenade.
(5) Not only is this the city’s best-known and most historic lido, it’s also Europe’s largest, with a 1,275 metre expanse of sandy beach and impressive 1920s “New Objectivity” architecture that houses a promenade of pizza, beer and ice-cream stalls.
(6) New Brighton Main road outside (now flooded) Morrisons on The Wirral Peninsula Sent via Guardian Witness By Rexkramer 5 December 2013, 14:24 Promenade New Brighton Promenade Road New Brighton, Wirral...they are waves not clouds!
(7) At Rada, he experimented with promenade productions of Shakespeare, and persuaded the Samuel Beckett estate to let him stage the radio play All That Fall in 2008.
(8) The promenade was reopened on Saturday morning as France began three days of national mourning and Hollande held a security meeting with ministers, police and intelligence officers.
(9) I'd bought half a dozen oysters, some bread and sausage and sat watching strollers, cyclists, runners and roller bladers taking full advantage of the promenade.
(10) Backed by a breezy 2km-long promenade, the calm water is perfect for swimming, while sunken galleons are a huge draw for scuba divers.
(11) Instead of being performed on stage to an audience, it was to be an immersive, promenade production, where the audiences could walk through the school corridors, witnessing conversations and different dramatic moments between the cast.
(12) However, he left a greater mark as an enabler, in charge of two of Britain's most important cultural institutions, the Edinburgh International Festival, from 1979 to 1983, and Radio 3 , where, from 1985 to 1995, he also planned the annual seasons of Promenade concerts.
(13) Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Tel Aviv It is flat, sunny and boasts a sweeping promenade hugging long golden beaches.
(14) • Lower Promenade (01287 625321, saltburnsurf.co.uk ), beginner group lesson £30 for approximately two hours, all equipment provided BEST FOR FAMILIES Ramsgate Main Sands, Ramsgate, Kent A bustling blue flag bearer, Ramsgate is a good old-fashioned beach resort with lifeguards on patrol, a bay inspector and a ban on dogs in the summer months, which keeps families flocking here.
(15) Hired on Monday in nearby Saint-Laurent-du-Var, the 19-tonne vehicle began to creep forward from no 11, Promenade des Anglais.
(16) He carried out the operation in response to calls to target nationals of states that are part of the coalition fighting Islamic State.” Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian man with French residency status who lived in the Riviera city, drove a heavy-goods vehicle through a crowd that had gathered to watch the display on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais.
(17) When the road officially opens next month, the whole system will continue to be monitored carefully, but as a promenade from the tube station to the park, it is already a liberating experience.
(18) Take a spin around the skate park and along the promenade under the palms.
(19) 2.28pm GMT On land and sea and foam... A police car patrols the sea front promenade covered in foam and sea spray in Blackpool, north west England, on December 5, 2013 as high winds hit the north of England and Scotland.
(20) From today, it is possible to wander through St Mark's Square, cross the Rialto and promenade the waterfront of Venice's Grand Canal via your computer or smartphone.