The batteries on Tybee were nearly all masked behind a low sand ridge and were also protected by heavy sandbag revetments.
Men were building sandbag traverses to guard the magazine doors.
The enemy were already in the Sandbag Redoubt, but His Royal Highness at once led the Guards to the charge.
The Guards twice charged them and drove the enemy out of the Sandbag Battery, when they perceived that the Russians had out-flanked them.
Some of the Russian columns had climbed up by the ground along this road; others had ascended on the left, in front and to the right of the Sandbag Battery.
We want everything that is right for us to have, but we are not going to try to sandbag the Government out of anything; primarily we are going to try to put something into the Government.
A proposal to give extra pay to enlisted men is unanimously defeated because, as Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt put it, "we are not here to sandbag something out of the Government, but to put something into it.
He had followed Colonel Roosevelt's advice: he refused to sandbag the Government out of anything, and this action gives the best possible basis for the procedure to put something into the Government.
He's going out to St. Louis to try to get some of the soldiers together to sandbag something out of the Government!
Laughing and cheering them on he time and again drove the Turks back, and then when he reached a point where the final sandbag barrier was to be erected, he tried to light three bombs at once and throw them amongst the crowding Turks.
Engineers immediately bolted out under a heavy fire, and hurriedly built up sandbag defences.
Mad he undoubtedly was when viewed by the sordid standards of the vandals around him, but this inspiring ode to a sandbag grew somewhat, I cannot but help thinking, in the transmission.
Their horizon is bounded by a dirty sandbag and a smell; and I maintain that their value as fighting troops is not one quarter what it might be.
The easiest thing to do with a sandbag in a trench, if you don't want it, is to chuck it out.
The aspect of the trench had changed; no longer did the red, white, and blue of the tangled wild flowers meet over his head, but grey and drab the sandbag walls rose on each side of him.
In his part of the front sandbags grew like pebbles on a shingly beach; and from time to time fresh cuts off the trenches were opened to allow for further expansion in the sandbag family.
Only one of our lot was hit, by a chance shot that came through the sandbag at the top of the parapet.
Some of us went out to strengthen a place in the parapet that was only one sandbag thick, where a man had been hit during the day.
He was sent to first one corner of the trenches and then to another, but mainly to this warm corner, not only throwing bombs but constantly smothering with his coat or sandbag the enemy's bombs which had fallen in the trench.
As if by magic, practical paths appeared leading up the cliffside, with sandbag protections; and thus a means of conveying stores and ammunition to the trenches above was at once improvised.
I spent hours and hours examining the grenades and packing them into sandbag carriers.
Austin, when a bullet caught the edge of the parapet just in front of us, tearing the sandbag along the top and stopping within a few inches of our heads.
My job was now to prepare the Brigade bomb stores and to see that the grenades were properly packed into sandbag carriers for taking up the line.
There were two sandbag walls, breastworks, about five feet high--the one in front with a small traverse wall.
As it was very wet, I had a sandbag taken by each man to lie down on.
We had now to get a number of sandbag carriers made for taking more grenades up the line, and I was given a small party from the 5th N.
Placement of sandbags (two feet wide) around the hospital tents and shelters provides adequate shielding for protection from gamma and x-ray radiation; the thicker the sandbag stacks the greater the protection factor.
This support includes placing sandbag walls around tents; digging trenches for patient occupation; or constructing earthen berms (see Appendix H).
He half turned his head round to whisper a caution about some detail of the sandbag business to the big sergeant-major, Karl Heinz, who was crawling just behind him.
The adjutant curled himself up among leave-rosters and ammunition and horse returns; I began writing the Brigade Diary for October, and kept looking over the sandbag that replaced the broken panes in my window for first signs of finer weather.
The six signallers--plus a terrier--had crowded into the tiny sandbagshelter that protected the test-box.
A lower ridge between these two was called the Fore Ridge, upon which at either end were the slight defences of the Barrier and Sandbag Battery, both destined ere long to become famous--“the scene of one of the bloodiest combats in history.
The luckless Russians turned to flee, but soon found themselves hemmed in by the dead-strewn parapet of the Sandbag Battery.
The section officer, being large, stood underneath while the cook climbed the tree and dropped them into a sandbag held open by the S.
I found a good-looking bayonet sticking in the side of a sandbag wall.
The French trenches are not as good as ours by a long chalk, and bullets keep coming through the joints of the badly built sandbag revetment.
On our little sandbag pier, built by Egyptians and Turkish prisoners, I met General Wallace and his A.
A bullet came through the chinks of a sandbag and scalped him.
I felt that the Woolpressers were making and taking huge bets as to what time my wee sandbag arrangement with contents would go by the board.
The latter was so occupied that he had not noticed Bathurst, who had suddenly risen to his feet, and just as Wilson was about to grasp him and pull him down, leaped over the sandbag in front of him down among the mutineers.
It rained very hard, and all the trenches at once became full of water--in some places so full that the garrison, as the weather was warm, discarded trousers and walked about with shirts tucked into sandbag bathing drawers.
On its extreme right was the sandbag battery, without guns, and composed merely of a bank of earth, while between it and the Russian position was a conical hill, known as Shell Hill, which was very soon to be manned by some 100 Russian guns.
As if at school and struggling for the possession of some imaginary castle, British and Russians fought fiercely for the sandbag battery.
Sandbag may be made of strong goods sewed into a bag and filled with sand.
Rope and Sandbag= (Rope ten feet long, with handle at one end which may be made by knotting the rope, and a sandbag or other weight at the other.
Not being satisfied with the position of one sandbag, he hopped over those already in place, and in full view of Jerry (it was daylight too), began to adjust the sandbag that displeased him.
Presently we took refuge in a sandbag shelter on the side of the road, and were just congratulating ourselves on the snugness of our retreat, when a tank stopped outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandbag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: airship; ballast; blackjack; club; cudgel; force; lead; mace; parts; plumb; plummet; sinker; weight
