Get to know Earthwork better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like rampart or bulwark.
Earthwork meaning
Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.
Using Earthwork
- The main meaning on this page is: Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.
- Useful related words include: rampart, bulwark, wall.
- In the example corpus, earthwork often appears in combinations such as: the earthwork, an earthwork.
Context around Earthwork
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Earthwork
- In this selection, "earthwork" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, includes, hills, circular, erosion, site and ran stand out and add context to how "earthwork" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a roman earthwork that may and ancestors ancient earthwork mounds have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "earthwork" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with earthwork
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The package includes earthwork, erosion control, supervision and related overhead expenses. (11 words)
Stumps and roots are removed and holes filled as required before the earthwork begins. (14 words)
Where the earthwork encounters hills or high ground, it passes to the west of them. (15 words)
The trench-line runs along the edge of the wood in a series of dog legs and zig-zags, a configuration designed to contain blast, and therefore casualties, if a grenade or shell were to land inside the earthwork. (39 words)
This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. long and 100 m. wide, which was oriented to the midwinter sunset. (37 words)
Fox 1955 He concurred with Asser that the earthwork ran 'from sea to sea', theorising that the Dyke ran from the River Dee estuary in the north to the River Wye in the south: approximately convert. (36 words)
Example sentences (15)
The trench-line runs along the edge of the wood in a series of dog legs and zig-zags, a configuration designed to contain blast, and therefore casualties, if a grenade or shell were to land inside the earthwork.
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is an earthwork along the Great Salt Lake and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are huge concrete pieces in the west desert.
Hutton Construction will provide an overview of its efforts to solicit and evaluate proposals for earthwork, and presented a guaranteed maximum price ( GMP ) to the school board for approval.
The package includes earthwork, erosion control, supervision and related overhead expenses.
Then in 2010 a field near the barracks was searched, along with a Quantock Hills earthwork site in Somerset known as Dead Woman’s Ditch, where Shirley’s body was found in 1988.
Fox 1955 He concurred with Asser that the earthwork ran 'from sea to sea', theorising that the Dyke ran from the River Dee estuary in the north to the River Wye in the south: approximately convert.
Heng Sophady (2007) has drawn comparisons between Samrong Sen and the circular earthwork sites of eastern Cambodia.
Monumental architecture, including earthwork platform mounds and sunken plazas have been identified as part of the civilization.
Probably to be identified with North Tawton in Devon where there is a Roman earthwork that may be military, or possibly a tax collection station.
Recently, some writers have suggested that Eutropius may have been referring to the earthwork later called Offa's Dyke.
Stumps and roots are removed and holes filled as required before the earthwork begins.
The original site was bounded on three sides by an earthwork circular enclosure, about ten feet high and encompassing a square mile.
The Santee River was named after them, and some of their ancestors' ancient earthwork mounds have survived along the portion of the dammed-up river that forms Lake Marion.
This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. long and 100 m. wide, which was oriented to the midwinter sunset.
Where the earthwork encounters hills or high ground, it passes to the west of them.
Common combinations with earthwork
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the earthwork 5×
- an earthwork 3×