How to Use embankment in a Sentence

embankment

noun
  • The force of the impact sent the SUV down an embankment north of the road.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The car veered off the road and came to a stop in an embankment.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The car plunged down the embankment and the driver was thrown from the car.
    — City News Service, Ramona Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The truck storms the embankment, throws its front tires over the top . .
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2018
  • The impact of the crash sent the Civic up an embankment to the right of the freeway.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In some spots, up to 10 feet of the embankment has worn away.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The two rays of light from points A and B meet at the midpoint, M, on the embankment.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • The car struck a guardrail and came to rest against some trees on a small embankment.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The car went up an embankment, struck a tree and caught fire.
    — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
  • And right away, the 60 or so men in a tight crowd led them down the embankment, toward the fortress.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The car went off the road and rolled down an embankment in Calabasas.
    — Paula Rogo, Essence, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The embankment was, in part, the result of the building of the Charles River Dam.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The car veered off the roadway, rolled down an embankment and hit a tree.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Troopers then found the driver of the car that went off the embankment.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Troopers shut down the area around 10 a.m. to remove the box truck from the embankment.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The car traveled off the side of the roadway, hit an embankment and a tree, spun around and stopped in a ditch.
    — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The missile hit just above the joint where the building began to curve away from the embankment.
    — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Video of the rescue shows the crumpled truck on its side up against a tree on the steep embankment.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The driver drove up on a grass embankment and ran out of fuel, the tweets said.
    — Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
  • The car came to stop on its wheels facing south on a dirt embankment.
    — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Just off the trail down a silty embankment, the Sandy River sat glassy in the bright morning light.
    — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The flames spread up an embankment toward a fence near a home.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The vehicle went down the embankment and struck a tree.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Frasher said the plane rolled down an embankment and crashed into a fence at the edge of a road.
    — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The car hit the truck and crashed into a railroad embankment.
    — Jared Goffinet, The Enquirer, 28 July 2021
  • The car then went over an embankment and landed in the river.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The car then went down an embankment, hit a tree and caught on fire, state police said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Photos of the crash show the truck overturned down an embankment in dense brush.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The vehicle was found to have rolled over and gone down an embankment, settling on its roof, police said.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2025
  • The Dodge continued, going through a fence and down a grassy embankment, according to the news release.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025

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