How to Use earthwork in a Sentence

earthwork

noun

• The eight sites making up the earthworks are spread across 90 miles of what is present-day southern Ohio.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• In back, the gentle rises in the lawn are actually part of a Maya Lin earthwork, Lay of the Land.
  — Ted Loos, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• The earthwork should be strong enough to hold back 1 million acre-feet of water, Gatzka said.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• The Alaska Labors Training School offered to do the earthwork and concrete foundation for the boards.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2021
• The black-and-white photograph of the blast, with earthworks catapulted skyward, looks like a scene from the Great War in Europe.
  — Susan Scott Parrish, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
• Trees and brush grew on its outer earthworks, which came to look more like hills than defensive features.
  — Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• At this point, about 60 acres have been cleared and major earthwork has already been completed.
  — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 July 2017
• Inside the great earthwork the builders reared a circle of towering timber posts from oak trees, some six feet thick and weighing more than 17 tons.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2022
• While his grandfather was plowing one day, his horse fell through the ground and into an ancient earthwork.
  — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
• Instead, these earthworks were likely places of gathering for people to feast and trade.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
• Named for a sci-fi novel that Smithson read in 1967, earthworks represented a new genre of landscape art.
  — Phyllis Tuchman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2017
• In the sixties and seventies, the earthworks movement used dirt and stone to produce art that could be beautiful and unsettling.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Currently, the earthwork is nearly gone and sits beneath a cemetery, per the Washington Post.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• Snipers, missileers and artillerymen on both sides wait for, and take potshots at, the enemy on the opposite earthwork.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• High in Spain’s southern mountains, 40 or so people armed with pitchforks and spades cleared stones and piles of grass from an earthwork channel built centuries ago and still keeping the slopes green.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Local folklore holds that copulating on the giant's crotch will help a couple conceive a child, and there is an Iron Age earthwork known as the Trendle at the top of the hill in which the giant has been carved.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• The rounded earthwork, which may be part of the largest pre-Hispanic settlement north of Mexico, appears to be what’s known as a council circle.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• Once the wall was completed, the engineers joined up the canals and turned them into a moat on the wall’s defensive side, an enormous earthwork that is still visible today.
  — Paul Cooper, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2018
• The permits also cover earthwork on vacant land next door owned by RD Management.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 June 2017
• Yet Dia remains very much the keeper of the Minimal-Conceptual-earthwork flame.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• In later digs Noël Hume determined that the ditch alongside the earthwork cuts across the workshop—suggesting the fort was built after the lab and possibly wasn't even Elizabethan.
  — Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2018
• Concentric circular trenches, some as much as 60 feet deep, had been carved into the volcanic rock of the mountaintop, bringing to mind a pre-Columbian earthwork.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Weiss/Manfredi’s earthwork at the edge of Brooklyn represent mourning as a constriction, a movement from light to darkness and back again.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• However, an equally impressive earthwork sits 116 miles to the northwest and is known as the Paracas Candelabra.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2017
• Next, the researchers used computer modeling to analyze known earthwork sites and predict their spread across the Amazon.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
• Remnants of this period on Sapelo still resonate in the foundation stones, earthworks and with the Sapelonians themselves.
  — Brett McNish, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
• The immense earthworks the war left in Europe and Asia will endure long after the official monuments have been carted off to make room for new subdivisions.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
• Filled in by 400 years of erosion and covered by topsoil and grass, the pre-Columbian earthwork shows up in thermal imaging but is otherwise nearly invisible from above.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• The earliest section was an outer circular earthwork, formed by a moat and two embankments on either side.
  — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Founded in 1924, the contractor specializes in earthwork, utilities, demolition and deep foundations and has worked on private and public projects across the metro area like St. Paul’s Allianz field.
  — Maraya King, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024