Carefully embanked on either side, the stream flowed swiftly, cutting the descent at right angles.
Thither we spurted, Dick studying a plan of the city as we flew along the straight road embankedabove the sand.
The whole of this flat country is laid out into embanked rice fields and sugar-cane plantations.
Some poor hard soils are only fit for crops of coarse rice sown after the embanked fields have been filled in the monsoon by drainage from surrounding waste.
The favourite crop in theembanked fields into which the water is diverted is jowár.
The only comparatively flat land is on the banks above river beds, which are devoted to rice cultivation, the water being conducted to the embanked fields by an elaborate system of little canals or kuhls.
The cultivated area is recorded as 1723 square miles, but this is enormously in excess of the cropped areas, for a very large part of the embanked area is often unsown.
In the Pachádh dams are built to divert the water of the torrents into embanked fields.
A land road also exists, for the earth dug from those channels has been thrown up so as to form an embanked road on either side.
The town stands on the flat alluvial of the Hwang-Ho, and is approached by high embanked roads.
The main Po has been embanked for centuries as far up as Cremona, a distance of 600 miles, and the Adige to Verona.
So the Chinese, whose land abounds in swamps and devastating rivers, have a long list of engineer heroes who embanked and drained for the salvation and benefit of mankind.
The recurring loss of millions of lives in China from the wide-sweeping floods of the Hoangho is a passing episode, forgotten as soon as the mighty stream is re-embanked and the flooded plains reclaimed.
Where there was embanked roadway it was almost always uphill and downhill and it frequently swung sharply round the corner of a cliff.
The land must be embanked with stones and then levelled.
The Po is not continuously embanked except for the lower half of its course.
Mehemet Ali was advised to adopt a system of longitudinal levees, and he embanked the river from Jebel Silsileh to the sea with dikes six or seven feet high and twenty feet thick.
Now embanked and weired and locked, its waters are ideal for boating, and its fishing, with little exception, is free to all.
Monkey Island is being embanked with the precious gravel dredged from the bed of the Thames, and, though no doubt a necessary precaution, as the river insidiously breaks off what it can, the operation is not a beautiful one.
When the river had been embanked and its waters been made a blessing instead of a curse, the sacred animals and the gods of the nomes were too firmly established to be displaced.
Presently we came in sight of Portsmouth over a long lagoon, its waters coming right up to our road, which isembanked to preserve it from the wash of the tide.
My host told me that his father remembered when there was still a drawbridge over the moat; now where the bridge was is an embanked approach to the house, doubtless more convenient, but infinitely less romantic.
At one point in about the centre of your section, the land dips and the line is embanked to a height of some ten feet, for a length of about half a mile.
They passed quickly through this wood; but about ten o'clock at night, they met with a small river embanked in a deep ravine, which they were obliged to cross one by one, as they had done the Dnieper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embanked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
