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  • noun Plural form of sandbag.

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Examples

  • Big sandbags is what we have come up with 36 hours after the levee has broken.

    Balloon Juice » 2005 » August 2005

  • Photo by Kenneth Helphand.) (Helphand writes, In the 1990-91 Gulf War, a green tarp held down by sandbags is transformed into 'lawns,' with a sign warning 'stay off.'

    Defiant Gardens 2007

  • Photo by Kenneth Helphand.) (Helphand writes, In the 1990-91 Gulf War, a green tarp held down by sandbags is transformed into 'lawns,' with a sign warning 'stay off.'

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • At 10.30 one morning I crawled over the parapet -- that is, the sandbags -- of our trench to sketch the picture of which this distillery shaft is the central feature.

    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

  • Authorities had considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Those who live close to the floodwall say they realize that the sandbags are the only thing keeping them from total inundation.

    NYT > Home Page By THOMAS FULLER 2011

  • Authorities had considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Authorities on Wednesday considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • The theory had been that the sandbags were the culprit, but eventually he walked right over them, no more spooked than he was any other place.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010

  • The theory had been that the sandbags were the culprit, but eventually he walked right over them, no more spooked than he was any other place.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010

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