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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "shoring" in a sentence

    shoring example sentences

    shoring


    1. The smell of the bacon cooking was heavenly and the cleaning and shoring work had given us an appetite and this would fill the hole


    2. We turned down a sunken road and on into the beginning of a communications trench as we walked along we would sometimes stumble over shoring planks or broken duckboards


    3. At breakfast 8 said, “The thumps you heard were caused by the staff shoring up the frame of the house because of the effect of the medical equipment


    4. spread through the room, sealing cracks and shoring up wal s


    5. in place options, shoring up their risk exposures and staying on top of


    6. They return to shoring up the cargo containers as Unks just cradles Cass’ head above the slowly retreating water


    7. The list of needs is a long one, but each year it is getting shorter as volunteer teams are shoring up the leaks and reducing poverty and improving the lives and health of Hondurans


    8. shoring up her wall with harder and harder materials


    9. Anticipating credit issues and the need for shoring up its capital base in Q4 2008 the company had issued preferred stock along with warrants and a small amount of common stock


    10. In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Bievre from the Boulevard de l'Hopital, as far as the Seine; after having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in extent, which crouched near the Barriere des Martyrs, after having, let us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barriere Blanche to the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a depth of eleven metres; after having—a thing heretofore unseen—made a subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died

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    Synonyms for "shoring"

    propping up shoring shoring up shore

    "shoring" definitions

    a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support


    the act of propping up with shores