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  • noun Plural form of causeway.

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Examples

  • We went through country characteristic of the levels: narrow causeways lined by pollarded willow, where banks protect the roadway from the often swollen rhynes.

    Country Diary: The Somerset Levels 2011

  • There we participated in what, shortly after World War II, was described by U.S. Army historians as the bloodiest small-unit battle in U.S. Army history: the battle for the La Fiere and Chef du Pont causeways and bridges.

    Yesteryear's Courage Is Needed Now 2011

  • That it did not dawn on the homeowners in the northern part of Wrightsville is called 'Shell Island' (note there are no causeways or bridges when leaving the rest of WV) when they bought their properties is no excuse for them to lobby for the Corps of Engineers to turn the gem of the east coast into the Jersey shore.

    So Proud to be a North Carolinian 2009

  • In the fen country from Holland bridge to Donnington, roads bridges and causeways were wrecked and washed away.

    Weatherwatch: bridges over troubled waters 2012

  • Vermont Agency of Transportation crews have been frantically dumping boulders along causeways where water and waves have undermined road surfaces, and using fill to try to keep the water from covering the travel lanes.

    In Vermont, overflowing Lake Champlain floods 2011

  • There we participated in what, shortly after World War II, was described by U.S. Army historians as the bloodiest small-unit battle in U.S. Army history: the battle for the La Fiere and Chef du Pont causeways and bridges.

    Yesteryear's Courage Is Needed Now 2011

  • Extensive marshes and multiple lakes bridged by causeways complicated any approach to the city.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Extensive marshes and multiple lakes bridged by causeways complicated any approach to the city.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Rich people wave at us, or at least smile if smiled at, from under the canopies of their rain-dappled gin-palaces, their causeways perfectly guarded by muscled men in fake epaulettes.

    Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter 2011

  • Most of his officers favored the three southern causeways, in part because they allowed U.S. troops to skirt the fortified castle of Chapultepec to the west.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

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