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Examples

  • It takes a lot of weight to sand-bag the people the way they have.

    Pawlenty throws weight behind Senate, House candidates 2010

  • Lance..dude..it was just sad watching him fall all those times, and watching Horner sand-bag the old man to the finish line.

    The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Previously, everyone had been working on the Egyptian model of glass-making, which had been in use since around 1500 BC: glass was heated and wound around and around a core of mud or a small sand-bag at the end of a long pole.

    The Allure of Hot Glass Heather McDougal 2007

  • Previously, everyone had been working on the Egyptian model of glass-making, which had been in use since around 1500 BC: glass was heated and wound around and around a core of mud or a small sand-bag at the end of a long pole.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • At Eastmoor Crescent, La Lucia, waves had washed away makeshift sand-bag fortifications, put up to prevent further erosion of several luxury beachfront properties.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • " Oh my goodness, the sad thing is you probably ARE gonna hide behind some reason like "need to spend more time with the Environmental Imapct Report, or sand-bag like that.

    Get The Champaign Ready For Thursday's Planning Dept. Meeting Regarding Condo Conversions 2006

  • Enter at one door, Horner, the Armourer, and his Neighbours, drinking to him so much that he is drunk; and he enters with a drum before him and his staff with a sand-bag fastened to it; and at the other door Peter, his man, with

    The Second part of King Henry the Sixth 2004

  • We had stripped off the paper wrapping of the individual explosive plugs and kneaded them together by help of the sun-heat into a shaking jelly in a sand-bag.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Afterwards it was necessary, with a sand-bag, to stipple the marks into a wavy surface; and, finally, with a bellows and long fanning sweeps of my cloak, to simulate the smooth laying of the wind.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Behind them followed ten box-waggons, crowded with rifle-muzzles at the windows and doors; and in little sand-bag nests on the roofs Turks precariously held on, to shoot at us.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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