embankment

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• The deputies did not realize Carrillo was above them, perched just 40 feet away in a covered, well-concealed position up a steep embankment, aiming the same “ghost” weapon that prosecutors say he had used in Oakland.

• Horschel avoided slipping on the embankment this time, but he wasn’t able to save par as he did Saturday.

• We find a site among the half-dozen or so etched into a steep embankment above the creek, with ample space between us and the two other parties here, a solo guy and two women.

• Scrambling over logs and ditches, I discovered the group crouched in a huddle along an embankment beside the creek.

• However, Woods, who was driving northbound, crossed over the median and the opposing lanes before coming to rest in the embankment.

• The perspective down the center of this painting is the raised embankment of an old railroad bed.

• The train bore me away … we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment.

• The plane settled about 400 yards from the runway in an embankment off a five-lane highway.

• “He climbed back up the embankment and slipped in the mud, got mad and chewed me out for half an hour,” Kronk said bitterly.

• “I rolled my Toyota Yaris three times this morning after hitting a six-foot-high dirt embankment at highway speed,” he writes.

• The or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.