(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.
Stank
Definition:
(a.) Weak; worn out.
(v. i.) To sigh.
(imp.) Stunk.
(n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
(n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
() of Stink
Example Sentences:
(1) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(2) As one contractor told me, the place "stank of money".
(3) And the brave nearly men of 2006 stank the place out like never before in 2010, a performance which would have put Le Pétomane to shame.
(4) Parfitt and Rossi spend most of the interview talking about how much they stank in the old days - they'd come off stage soaking, screw their clothes into a ball and wear them the next day.
(5) According to al-Dostor newspaper, a strongly pro-army broadsheet, Time's decision "stank of political bias".
(6) "After the first day or two the corpses swelled and stank," he wrote.
(7) In Glasgow the black Clyde stank and the sunshine, when it came, had to struggle through the near-permanent fug of carbon particles sent into the air by forges, rolling mills, ships, gasworks, shunting steam locomotives, and household fires in their hundreds of thousands.
(8) Clinical studies are performed on 15 workers from the chemical and pharmaceutic plant "Stanke Dimitrov".
(9) But the moment I came back to London I had to start again – it stank of cigarettes and got very dirty very quickly.
(10) "No 10 insisted on letting this go ahead, when it stank," she said.
(11) Newsnight producer Merion Jones, in an email to editor Peter Rippon, on evidence from one woman about the sex abuse that allegedly took place at BBC Television Centre: "One particular celebrity [redacted] absolutely stank of booze and sweat.
(12) In the UK, the admissions cover a highly controversial sale of a military radar to poverty-stricken Tanzania, which the development secretary Clare Short said at the time "stank" of corruption, but which the then prime minister, Tony Blair, forced through the cabinet.
(13) The city's Victorian plumbing was struggling to cope with the July heat and the place stank of sewage.
(14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
(15) A communal kitchen stank of shitty nappies and urine; and the occasional waft of cannabis from the landing opposite where another row of rooms housed other hostel residents.
(16) Whatever, this Early Days of Moulin Rouge theme is really working for me, given the manner in which they stank out the first leg was reminiscent of none other than Le Pétomane.
(17) It stank of sweat and the mouldering shirts, which they wore "till they fell apart, mate".)
(18) Dizzee Rascal has a few low-profile business interests, including a record label, Dirtee Stank, and Dirtee TV production company.
(19) Wormwood Scrubs filthy, overcrowded and dilapidated – prisons watchdog Read more In his concluding paragraph, Hardwick described meeting an 18-year-old who had for several months spent at least 22 hours a day in a cell with a broken window and a toilet that stank.
(20) The room was normally used as a nightclub, so it stank of alcopops and sick.