How to Use abutment in a Sentence

abutment

noun

• The car crashed into a bridge abutment.
• So the plane slides the whole length of this runway and up on an abutment and breaks in half.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2020
• The vehicle crossed the creek at a high speed and hit the abutment on the other side of the creek.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2022
• Phillips said the abutments that support the bridge are in good shape and will remain.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
• What Barbara wants to do is avoid driving off the road or into a bridge abutment.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
• What Barbara wants to do is avoid driving off the road, or into a bridge abutment.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• In the case of the Avon site, the DOT project required deep excavation for the construction of bridge abutments.
  — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Poetry is dense and depends on the abutment of words and thoughts and ideas and suggestions.
  — Ann Reynolds, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2021
• The abutments — one on each bank — and a pier in the river's center, are remnants of an old railroad bridge that used to exist there.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2017
• On each of the two bridges, four pilings 4 feet in diameter and as much as 80 feet deep were attached to the sides of each abutment.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The truck went through a guardrail into the center median and struck a concrete bridge abutment.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 26 June 2017
• As many as 50 had called the camp, nestled between a freeway abutment and railroad tracks, home.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
• The district will be pouring concrete abutments and setting the bridge in the forest preserve back in place during the work.
  — Beacon-News Staff, Aurora Beacon-News, 14 June 2019
• The Coast Guard restricted passage beneath the old bridge to the space between the two center abutments, a span of a few hundred feet.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
• Da Vinci would have added what are known as wing walls, abutments out to the side of the bridge, steadying it during harsh conditions.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2019
• Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The collapse of the bridge southwest of the town of Northwood occurred around 1:15 p.m. local time, and when deputies arrived, the trailer of the truck was hung up on the west abutment, the sheriff's office said.
  — NBC News, 23 July 2019
• The flood took out most of the bridges, although some, like the wood bridge at the Glenoaks crossing, had abutments that diverted the water and protected some of the houses downstream.
  — Katherine Yamada, Glendale News-Press, 29 June 2017
• Voss said concrete underneath the bridge had decayed partly from salt entering the seams of the abutments over time.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Metro’s plan is to remove and dispose of the steel framing, concrete abutments and footers and regrade and revegetate the area, Ashe said.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• In early 2009, heavy rains and melting snow caused flooding in parts of Washington, leading to a leak in the earthen abutment of the Howard Hanson Dam.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2017
• The car veered back onto the road and started to spin before slamming sideways into a concrete bridge abutment.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• The new abutment and pier have already been reconstructed.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2021
• Over the past several weeks, work crews have painted the abutments in Briganti-Dunn’s colors.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
• It will be replaced with 21st century concrete abutments on both sides of the banks and a crane will be used to drop a prefabricated bridge in.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• Contractors are now ringing the base of the largest of the mounds with large blocks of sandstone salvaged from the remnants of a bridge abutment discovered along Jefferson Street in Tremont.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• In many cases, the bridge abutments are some of the highest points on the islands, and residents have jammed their cars onto the relatively higher pieces of ground.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• Its concrete abutments are anchored into sheer rock walls.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Construction vehicles will use the access road when building the abutment of a bridge that will carry light-rail trains over Colesville Road, Julian said.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024