Synonym: bank, barrier, buttress, dam, fortification, shore. Similar words: investment banker, bombardment, embodiment, abandonment, embezzlement, embark, embargo, embarrass. Meaning: [-mənt] 
n. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection.
n. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection. 
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(31) I was slim and young and improvising verses to an audience on the embankment.
(32) On a barbed-wire fence dividing the railway embankment from the meadow a lamb was caught.
(33) Peterborough Embankment roach to 8 oz fair sport around the new road bridge.
(34) Wetly gleaming, it wriggled and flapped over the embankment to the shore road.
(35) A thick hedge shielded her from the field which swept down towards the foot of the embankment.
(36) He stretched up his arms in a vain effort to reach the top of the embankment.
(37) His mutilated body was found on a railway embankment in Walton last Sunday.
(38) The bus crashed into an embankment before bursting into flames.
(39) As far as can be ascertained this happened near to the position of the guide pulley sited on the lower embankment.
(40) The kilometre long cutting emerges on to a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich.
(41) For the first part of the route,(http://sentencedict.com/embankment.html) the embankment gives views across Carrickknowe golf course and the nearby allotments.
(42) We paddled under a single track embankment linking North Uist with Benbecula, exchanging waves with the friendly local driving overhead.
(43) He went back down the embankment with him, telling Catherine to stay where she was and help with photographing the track.
(44) First was shown the locomotive, steaming along an embankment: the driver stood confident on the footplate.
(45) The grassed oval arena, with its high embankment against a background of slender trees, should be visited.
(46) On 22 October, corresponding alterations were made for trams and other traffic proceeding towards the Embankment.
(47) The route passes through farmland and woodland in both cutting and embankment, with views over the surrounding countryside.
(48) The fastest way from there to the Embankment was to take an Underground train from Euston.
(49) He strode across the road and headed towards the quayside, leaning against the black metal fencing that ran along the embankment.
(50) The Government buildings along the Embankment drop away behind us, and here I am in another world, another life.
(51) On his morning run along the Embankment, Adam mulled over the tasks that still needed to be carried out next.
(52) On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line.
(53) Meekly he followed Drumhead up the sandy embankment toward the willow grove.
(54) The structure is sheltered by a high embankment.
(55) He ran up the embankment to the railway.
(56) Said local levee as " Zhang embankment. "
(57) We walked along the Thames embankment.
(58) The embankment is in great peril.
(59) He often promenades his wife along the Thames Embankment.
(60) An embankment has been thrown up.
More similar words: investment banker, bombardment, embodiment, abandonment, embezzlement, embark, embargo, embarrass, embarrassed, bank, banks, banker, bank on, banking, bankrupt, bankruptcy, go bankrupt, commencement, amendment, first amendment, contentment, entitlement, sentimental, enticement, resentment, entailment, presentiment, entertainment, sentiment, discontentment.