Backfill in A Sentence

    1

    Cover the pipe with some washed stone, and then backfill the trench with soil.

    2

    Put the post in place and tamp the backfill carefully in layers.

    3

    Roman, Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian pottery were recovered from the feature's single backfill.

    4

    The backfill was identified as a dark gray clay silt with mixed gravel and lumps of redeposited subsoil.

    5

    This backfill had inclusions of charcoal flecks and gravel and sherds of medieval pottery (Appendix E) were recovered during excavation.

    6

    This feature measured up to 0.16m in width x 0.21m in depth with a brown silty clay backfill.

    7

    You must then backfill the trench up to 18 " from road level.