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Sandbag meaning
A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel. | A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel. | An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
Example sentences (20)
After tripping on the sandbag, he sought to laugh that off too.
At the five Valley Water sandbag sites scattered throughout the county, residents can pick up free filled sandbags or fill their own with bags and sand the district has provided.
Dozens of people turned out, filling sandbags, and we joined the sandbag line.
He stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony for the US Air Force Academy.
It resembled a small black sandbag on the stage.
Protect the flanks with traps and barricades or create a small sandbag fort up a hill to protect against small-arms fire while maintaining a good sight line on the enemy's blind spots.
The OKIB is reminding residents who are returning to their homes to return sandbags to the sandbag station north of Whiteman’s Creek, and is asking residents not to dump sand or sandbags into the creek or lake.
There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands," communications director Ben LaBolt tweeted.
California Department of Corrections prisoners help sandbag homes along Gotera Drive in the Hacienda Heights section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.
Otherwise, employees can install a sandbag in their office and spend several minutes doing some punching exercises to relax, he said.
The city opened a build-your-own sandbag operation at Truxtun Park at 10 a.m. Monday.
The rule was changed to placate the party’s increasingly leftist members, who viewed it as an integral part of the effort to sandbag Sanders.
Fargo officials this week reactivated Sandbag Central, converting a building that normally houses garbage trucks into a systematic operation combining machinery and manpower to fill 24 sandbags every 6 seconds.
It was thousands of people, in total, working to sandbag, move in huge Hesco barriers; a whole host of people clearing equipment out of facilities, moving munitions … even crews doing things like disconnecting power.
She planned to sandbag the door of her townhouse.
A prosecutor in Toledo said Friday the 14- and 15-year-old boys didn’t toss the sandbag that killed 22-year-old Marquise Byrd, of Warren, Michigan.
Build a sandbag and steel wall around each aircraft.
See below for sand and sandbag locations.
TOLEDO, Ohio— A 13-year-old boy in Ohio has acknowledged tossing a sandbag off an interstate overpass that killed a Michigan man riding in a car.
When she goes back her seat, a sandbag falls.