Revetment in A Sentence

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    A cutting to the north located a possible rampart strengthened by tipped stone with a vertical timber revetment.

    2

    A rock revetment was constructed in 1992 in an attempt to address the basic cause of slope instability, i.e. basal wave erosion.

    3

    Blocks of dressed stone overgrown by grass lie in regular formation; a series of parallel revetment walls on hills commanding passes exist, as do relics of ancient water-tanks.

    4

    Each mound was encircled by a carefully built stone revetment.

    5

    Erosion by wave attack is combated by a wide range of revetment systems.

    6

    Previously the earliest date was AD 52 from a river revetment.

    7

    The LCP is, from the outside, no more sophisticated than a caravan protected by an earth revetment.

    8

    The older wooden revetment consists of posts fixed into the beach with wooden slats between.

    9

    There are larger enclosures to the north, possibly connected with the farm, with a small moated island which has a stone revetment.

    10

    These uses include revetment, ground stabilization and reinforcement, drainage and revegetation.

    11

    Wattle hurdles for sheep fencing and garden use are available from hurdle makers, but are normally too expensive for bankside revetment work.