sandbag
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- noun
- /ˈsændˌbæɡ/
:
saco de arena
- Indeed, the next day the levee was abandoned and the sandbags were washed away.
A lot of times you're using sandbags as cover.
- A lot of times you're using sandbags as cover.
- was flooded, much to the delight of ducks, and he couldn't find sufficiently many sandbags.
- But to watch you sitting there between the sandbags, but to watch the sand spilling out the bullet holes.
- I then hand them the proverbial scissors to cut off the sandbags that the narcissist put on their balloon so that it can finally rise.
- But if you never address the sandbags that are keeping that thing on the ground, weighing it down, is it going anywhere?
- Living on a cot surrounded by stacked sandbags and a concrete ish.
- I forget what it was, but we we're filming sandbags, actually.
- We could not stay possibly indoors with all these sandbags at the windows, very sad, dark.
- And I hate to say it, but tripping over a sandbag isn't going to signal the confidence that somebody right now is going to stand up and fight for them.
Examples
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The other soldier leaned against the sandbags, looking in their direction.
Fiction book (1998) -
Look, meet me at the beach and we'll make more sandbags.
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Throw the sandbag over here.
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One member of each pod must retrieve a sandbag from the ocean floor.
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I'll get some sandbags from the shed.
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The road we had been traveling on was built on a sandbag dike above glazed water.
Fiction book (1999) -
The world was reduced to mud and sandbags and a narrow strip of rainy sky.
Fiction book (1998) -
Water is halfway up the four-foot-high wall of sandbags around the station.
Fiction book (1998) -
Russell watched as two men filled a half-dozen sandbags and hoisted them onto the truck.
Fiction book (1991) -
Volunteers spent the day filling sandbags to protect the town from potential flooding.
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Etymology
Sandbag is exactly what it looks like: sand + bag, meaning a 'bag' filled with 'sand'. Because it is heavy and easy to stack, a sandbag is used as a barrier, as ballast, or sometimes as a simple weapon.