Revetments Sentence Examples

These training walls are built of stone with flat revetments to protect them against ice.

It seems unlikely that this modern admixture of Asiatic and African blood represents the " Asiatic Ethiopian " of Herodotus, which was more probably a direct connexion of the Himyaritic Arab builders of " bunds " and revetments who spread eastwards from Arabia.

By means of a series of training walls, by groynes thrown out from the banks, by revetments of the banks, and by dredging, all done with the view of narrowing the river, a minimum depth of II ft.

Restoring damaged areas by constructing revetments and erosion barriers, filling, grading, reseeding and transplanting.

This is a large single story concrete structure covered in earth and grassed with concrete revetments around it.

Marginal vegetation can be established on shelves constructed beneath vertical or steeply sloping revetments.

A number of medieval timber revetments suggest the area contained a mass of shifting river channels.