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- noun Plural form of
sandbag .
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Examples
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Big sandbags is what we have come up with 36 hours after the levee has broken.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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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