How to Use sandbag in a Sentence

sandbag

1 of 2 noun

• Thanks to the sandbags, the tent didn’t even budge under heavy gusts of wind.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• The only light from the rest stop seeped through the cracks in the sandbags that shielded its windows.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• But their waves would wash over the sandbags and the water was lapping up against their homes.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2020
• With the sandbag in the seat, this bouncer was stable, and the buckles and straps were easy to adjust.
  — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
• Those sandbag walls will stand 4-feet tall, 5-feet wide and 50-feet long, according to the memo.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• The makeshift sandbag tubs at Sykes were dislodged and destroyed.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
• The sandbags helped a lot, as well as mesh windows on the side that allowed for the air to pass through rather than knocking the canopy over.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
• Schraiber entered the stage with a sandbag and slammed it to the floor, scattering its contents in an arc across the stage.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
• Over the last few days, tens of thousands of sandbags have been filled and distributed.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
• Stand with your feet wider than hip-width, feet toed out to the sides, holding a sandbag in front of you with both hands at arm’s length.
  — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 26 May 2022
• One photo appeared to show a sandbag tethered to the chest.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The city announced Saturday that the sandbag goal has been met.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2019
• When the spill was discovered, staff members at the plant placed sandbags near the fence to stop the flow of wastewater into the creek.
  — Carissa Lamkahouan, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2020
• The home’s windows were boarded up with plywood and tires and sandbags.
  — Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• No doubt Newsom isn’t the only one who wonders if there are more sandbags on the 80-year-old Biden’s road ahead.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Like a sandbag in the face of a tsunami, the chewy pretzel bun can barely contain the pure, sloppy force of the sandwich.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• Hastily formed sandbag brigades were no match for the waters, which left tons of mud behind.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• Each inflatable is fixed with a sandbag, and the set is equipped with ropes and ground stakes to keep the float in place during harsh weather.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• To create overhead lighting, attach one of the softboxes to the boom arm and keep it in place with the sandbag.
  — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
• As her mother carries her, Sylvia’s legs hang down like sandbags, heavy and limp.
  — Jenny Gold, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2019
• All four sandbag locations will be open from 8 a.m. to noon.
  — Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Simple: the brilliant design includes a sandbag at the end of each corner to weigh it down.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
• Two players from each tribe must race to empty a crate full of rope and sandbags, revealing a key.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• The two-piece bed wipes down easily and the mattress is durable: the bed didn’t shift or deflate during our sandbag test.
  — Mandy Harris, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2023
• Each corner has fillable sandbag pockets to ground the canopy, which is key on windy days.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• People can fill sandbags from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Sunday.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• The group simply closed the loading door to stop the breeze and requested sandbags from the convention center staff to hold the scaffolds.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2020
• Two million sandbags have been pre-positioned across the state.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• That the prose doesn’t soar is the point: thick with explication, the sentences are sandbags, loaded onto the page to drive home the cumulative weight of work.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
• Pre-storm warnings also let residents know to stock and stack sandbags.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024

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sandbag

2 of 2 verb

• I think he was sandbagging us.
• He claimed he was playing badly because of an injury, but I think he was sandbagging.
• Gardner sat in a chair, sandbags around him and a target pinned over his heart.
  — Michael Tarm, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• One of my friends offered his truck and his time for a sandbagging party.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 19 May 2017
• But truth be told, the U.S. might be better off sandbagging it against Sweden.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• This family here has sandbagged their house and move the valuable stuff up to higher floors.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• Gerhardsson sandbagged the group stage game against the US, losing, 2-0, and the Swedes would have stood little chance against the Americans in the final.
  — Frank Dell’apa, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• The Crew 2 The Crew was an interesting idea for a racing game sandbagged by one tragic flaw: The driving just wasn’t very good.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 June 2017
• Last year’s 10-6 playoff team was sandbagged by three issues: 1.
  — Omar Kelly, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 May 2017
• To protect 3,500 tulips, workers tarped and sandbagged the riverside flower bed.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
• Many storefronts already had been sandbagged and boarded up.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• Ben Cherington was sandbagged in the middle of the 2015 season, less than two years after winning a World Series.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• My very first memory is of flooding and my family having to sandbag our house.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• At the edge of the town of Jean Lafitte just outside New Orleans, volunteers helped several town employees sandbag a 600-foot stretch of the two-lane state highway.
  — Sarah Blake Morgan and Janet McConnaughey, orlandosentinel.com, 13 July 2019
• At the edge of the town of Jean Lafitte just outside New Orleans, volunteers helped several town employees sandbag a 600-foot stretch of the two-lane state highway through town.
  — Author: Kevin McGill, Janet McConnaughey, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2019
• Unless Osweiler has been sandbagging all along, the Patriots should run away with this one.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
• In the United States, the declining value of production tax credits for wind projects sandbagged the industry.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• But at least you weren’t sandbagged by some antediluvian notion of how family is supposed to work.
  — John Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• Homeowners sandbagged their property or packed up and left.
  — Janet McConnaughey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
• In that case, cultural heritage was sandbagged, bricked or fortified and much of the country’s most valuable art was smuggled out of the country in a bid to protect it from the coming conflict.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2017
• In Missouri folks were out sandbagging to protect their homes after weekend flooding.
  — Ginger Pinson, Twin Cities, 1 May 2017
• Elsewhere in the county, people sandbagged the doors of low-lying businesses along San Luis Obispo Creek, where the churning brown water continued to rise.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Town Hall had a trickle of people stopping by to offer help sandbagging or to keep leaders posted on road and levee conditions.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 21 June 2017
• On several occasions, Jenckes, like other farmers, was sandbagging along the levee of the swollen Wabash River.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2018
• As North Carolina has already learned, being a jerk for no good reason can really sandbag your tourism economy.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• Her teammates were emotionally sandbagged at the final buzzer, and forward Sam Fuehring described being unable to hold back a torrent of empathy.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2018
• So while the city isn’t taking any chances, the first day of sandbagging Tuesday was more of a soft opening, in part because Fargo has made numerous changes to reduce its vulnerability and has time on its side.
  — Dave Kolpack, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• The council was angry with Fischer and accused him of sandbagging them earlier on pension issues.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
• Sewer main lines were completely filled, and crews sandbagged manholes in the area to avoid further surface water infiltration, city officials said.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2020
• The Missouri River had been projected to start falling in Jefferson City but first rose above its forecasted crest, causing road crews to start sandbagging along a major highway that carries traffic into the state’s capital city.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2019

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