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Example sentences for "retaining wall"

  • Such a retaining wall makes a most efficient fence and well defined boundary of property.

  • The excavation for and construction of a retaining wall in Seventh Avenue, 31st Street, Ninth Avenue, and 33d Street.

  • Tables 1, 2, and 3 show the quantity of cement used in each section of retaining wall, and give figures by which the quantities of other materials may be determined.

  • Mr. Mensch says that the proposed design of a retaining wall would be difficult and expensive to install.

  • They have about as much real meaning as calculations for earth pressures behind a retaining wall.

  • The crossing of tracks in center of foreground is at the present corner of Sixth Avenue and Forbes Street] [Illustration: Retaining wall supporting a local park at Lyons--a suggestion for the bluff between Second Avenue and the new City Hall.

  • In a two-level street a longitudinal bank, or retaining wall, is introduced in the middle so as to adapt it to the topography and bring each half of it nearer to the natural surface where the abutting property fronts upon it.

  • Retaining wall] The next day Mr. Gregg ordered Portland cement and all the other materials required to build the wall, and engaged Nick, who promised to come the following morning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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