revet

How To Use revet In A Sentence

• The men were very quick about getting down, and after the first night they were practically working in safety for the remaining four or five days necessary to complete the sandbag revetting. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
• He had been promoted to captain, and later he was brevetted major for ‘gallant and meritorious service’.
• Although extensive (and presumably fantastically expensive), the excavations revealed a story of only local interest, with Medieval and later expansion by Kingston upon Thames via a series of revetments into the river.
• He was often breveted for gallantry, and became quartermaster general of the U.S. Army.
• After the flood, existing levees were rebuilt, extended, and reinforced with revetments.
• One handful of twilight was left, but Brevet General Thurman Dynamics fit skeet shooting into his day.
• I started with a lobster and crevette salad. Times, Sunday Times
• Also in the barrow ditches were woodchips and offcuts from the construction of the mound's timber revetment.
• We would have expected a bit more clearance for chubbier, sportive-friendly tyres 25s or maybe even 28s and single mudguard eyelets also wouldn't hurt – performance is never compromised with slightly larger tyres, and the likelihood of a 566 Origin owner doing a wet brevet/grand fondo/sportive is high. Archive 2009-07-01
• It is in very good condition with a round cairn 8 m. in diameter revetted by a kerb of coarse walling, and a partially infilled chamber.