NOUN
- a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
How To Use retaining wall In A Sentence
- Soil compaction is common in civil engineering practice mainly in highway and rail road works, run ways, earth dams, sanitary landfills and backfilling of excavations for substructures and retaining walls.
- A common complaint is replacement of borderline fences and wood retaining walls.
- The fireplace is part of a stuccoed retaining wall set into a hill at the rear of the property.
- The swimming pool is set well down below a high retaining wall and surrounded by cypress hedges. The Education of a Gardener
- This feature conceals a deep trench and a retaining wall that protect the building from errant drivers.
- They added fill by the house to make a fairly level garden up top, and then nudged and added stone to build retaining walls and steps.
- On the east side of the building, a double retaining wall supports leveling fill between the wall and bedrock.
- He rebuilt the retaining walls as multiple tiers, with a bonus upper-level patio above a bank of stone steps.
- For some moments I was lost in a succession of overbridges, retaining walls and manicured slopes along the gently winding superb new motorway.
- Howsare writes that "the site has to be literally hacked out of a cliffside, which is then shored up with massive ugly retaining walls, which in turn face directly into people's tiny bedroom windows. Cvillenews.com