Sandbag
noun
A bag filled with sand, used typically for weight or protection.
We used sandbags to protect our house from the flood waters.
Often appears as...
- fill a sandbag
- stack sandbags
verb
To hit someone with a sandbag, usually as an attack.
He was sandbagged and robbed while walking home at night.
Often appears as...
- sandbag someone
- be sandbagged
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To trick someone by pretending to be weak or easy to defeat.
He sandbagged during the initial rounds to make his opponents lower their guard.
Often appears as...
- sandbag an opponent
- sandbag in a game
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To prevent or slow down a process intentionally.
The opposition sandbagged the legislation by delaying the vote.
Often appears as...
- sandbag progress
- sandbag a proposal
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A bag filled with sand, used typically for weight or protection.
We used sandbags to protect our house from the flood waters.
Often appears as...
- fill a sandbag
- stack sandbags
verb
To hit someone with a sandbag, usually as an attack.
He was sandbagged and robbed while walking home at night.
Often appears as...
- sandbag someone
- be sandbagged
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To trick someone by pretending to be weak or easy to defeat.
He sandbagged during the initial rounds to make his opponents lower their guard.
Often appears as...
- sandbag an opponent
- sandbag in a game
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To prevent or slow down a process intentionally.
The opposition sandbagged the legislation by delaying the vote.
Often appears as...
- sandbag progress
- sandbag a proposal
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Flood Defense
Sandbag as protection against water or for creating barriers during emergencies, especially floods.
Residents were stacking sandbags to fortify the river bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Weight Training
Sandbag used as an improvised weight for physical exercises and training.
He improvised and used a sandbag for his workout.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Stability
Sandbags serve as stable bases for holding things like traffic signs or balloons.
We placed a sandbag at the base of the balloon stand.
Pro Tip 1/3Flood Defense
Sandbag as protection against water or for creating barriers during emergencies, especially floods.
Residents were stacking sandbags to fortify the river bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Weight Training
Sandbag used as an improvised weight for physical exercises and training.
He improvised and used a sandbag for his workout.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Stability
Sandbags serve as stable bases for holding things like traffic signs or balloons.
We placed a sandbag at the base of the balloon stand.
Pro Tip 1/3Flood Defense
Sandbag as protection against water or for creating barriers during emergencies, especially floods.
Residents were stacking sandbags to fortify the river bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Weight Training
Sandbag used as an improvised weight for physical exercises and training.
He improvised and used a sandbag for his workout.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Stability
Sandbags serve as stable bases for holding things like traffic signs or balloons.
We placed a sandbag at the base of the balloon stand.
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Termite-Inspired Robots...
of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
and didn't touch their bodies. I was leaning against some sandbags one morning, not much going on, sort of spacing out, and some sand was kicked into the side of, sort of hit the side of my face. Something hit the side of my face, and I didn't know what it was. You have to understand about bullets
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What intelligent...
But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials
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Janine Shepherd: A...
They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal. I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed. I had no movement in my legs. I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots. I had one arm in plaster, one arm tied down by drips. I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side of my head
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3 ways to plan for the...
Storm goes away, the water level goes down, you get rid of the sandbags, and you do this storm after storm after storm. And here's the insidious thing. A sandbag strategy can get you reelected. A sandbag strategy can help you make your quarterly numbers.
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A broken body isn't a...
to acute spinal I was lying on a thin hard spinal bed I had no movement in my legs I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots I had one arm in plaster one arm tied down by drips I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side
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How to build safer...
the next shiny trendy architectural solution the paper roll house the recycled bottle house the sandbag house people don't want to live in these houses they don't drive the political will they don't drive the financing and
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Lobsters Battle for a...
the month of walking she finally arrives at her favorite sandbag but she's not the first here dozens of other lobsters have already dug themselves homes in the sand and they don't intend to surrender
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Japanese Balloon Bombs PIPE...
by a series of sandbags it gets it to its target is incredible someone had to sit down and run the numbers to come up with exactly how many sandbags exactly how far they could project the balloon
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Mike Wallace remembers...
wrote a book about it this part of the book he said that I had had sandbagged him I felt really sorry for a lot of people have said that sort of thing
Video examples
Termite-Inspired Robots...
of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is
Video examples
Sebastian Junger: Why...
and didn't touch their bodies. I was leaning against some sandbags one morning, not much going on, sort of spacing out, and some sand was kicked into the side of, sort of hit the side of my face. Something hit the side of my face, and I didn't know what it was. You have to understand about bullets
Video examples
What intelligent...
But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials
Video examples
Janine Shepherd: A...
They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal. I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed. I had no movement in my legs. I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots. I had one arm in plaster, one arm tied down by drips. I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side of my head
Video examples
3 ways to plan for the...
Storm goes away, the water level goes down, you get rid of the sandbags, and you do this storm after storm after storm. And here's the insidious thing. A sandbag strategy can get you reelected. A sandbag strategy can help you make your quarterly numbers.
Video examples
A broken body isn't a...
to acute spinal I was lying on a thin hard spinal bed I had no movement in my legs I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots I had one arm in plaster one arm tied down by drips I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side
Video examples
How to build safer...
the next shiny trendy architectural solution the paper roll house the recycled bottle house the sandbag house people don't want to live in these houses they don't drive the political will they don't drive the financing and
Video examples
Lobsters Battle for a...
the month of walking she finally arrives at her favorite sandbag but she's not the first here dozens of other lobsters have already dug themselves homes in the sand and they don't intend to surrender
Video examples
Japanese Balloon Bombs PIPE...
by a series of sandbags it gets it to its target is incredible someone had to sit down and run the numbers to come up with exactly how many sandbags exactly how far they could project the balloon
Video examples
Mike Wallace remembers...
wrote a book about it this part of the book he said that I had had sandbagged him I felt really sorry for a lot of people have said that sort of thing
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Katha Pollitt
American Poet
We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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Poppy Delevingne
English Model
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
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Laura Benanti
American Actress
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Russel Honore
American Soldier
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
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Richard O'Brien
English Actor
It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.
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Katha Pollitt
American Poet
We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
Quote examples
Poppy Delevingne
English Model
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
Quote examples
Laura Benanti
American Actress
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
Quote examples
Russel Honore
American Soldier
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
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Richard O'Brien
English Actor
It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.
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