Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: embankment
IPA transcription: [ɛmb'æŋkmənt]
Pronunciations of embankment
*0
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: embankment
    Meaning: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
Usage examples
  • Doctor Walker and Paul Armstrong--the latter still lame where I had shot him--hurried across to the embankment, certain only of one thing.
  • Such a great sheet of blackness it looks as the train thunders along the side, swinging the curve of the embankment at a breakneck speed as it rounds the corner of the lake.
  • They had come to deep grooves in loose gravel, then the cut in the embankment, then they could see the wrecked car standing on the engine and lying against a big tree, near the water, while two men and a woman were carrying a limp form across the meadow toward the house.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Alfred Nobel, License CC BY-SA 4.0