I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Emergency workers built a sandbag barricade as 60 patients were put on evacuation stand-by.
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He also collected sandbags and wood to barricade the Legation buildings.
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Mickey Andrews describes their use: We would only fill a sandbag about two-thirds full.
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Simple tasks like filling sandbags or carrying water to the shower area were suddenly difficult.
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Swiftly, Ace clambered over the red-stained sandbags, and checked the door.
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The men inside the Camp Holloway compound slept behind sandbag walls and had bunkers to duck into if the mortars came.
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Under bright overhead lights at one end of the shed a chair had been positioned, banked on three sides by sandbags.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Morley accused Franklin of sandbagging him by not telling him the full story.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 1 a.m., sandbagging is finished.
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Haller said all sandbagging was finished about 1 a.m.
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Residents continue to sandbag about 25 homes to protect them from the river.
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So the 49ers were sandbagging in the preseason, throwing their fourth-stringers to the wolves and saving the first-stringers for the season.
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Symmetrical coils of barbed wire obstructed most streets, and houses were sloppily sandbagged.
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Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom.
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Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach.