How to Use riprap in a Sentence

riprap

noun
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  • The county plans to use the eastern stretch of the river’s banks to store 5,100 tons of riprap and sand.
    — Alma Fausto, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2017
  • The concrete guide wall is on top of 80-year-old wood pilings and riprap.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2018
  • The riprap used on repaired parts of the dam was undersize.
    — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Extensive riprap at the base of the bluffs have likely slowed the erosion.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Sheepshead remain a good bet around the gas rigs, riprap and hard bottom in the lower bay on live shrimp.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The lake is the main attraction: boats on the horizon, storm waves thundering at the riprap.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • The riprap areas can be good for squarebills, jerkbaits and crankbaits—anything that can be bounced off the rocks.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Feb. 2021
  • This can also be prime time around riprap walls exposed to the afternoon sun--the rocks tend to warm up and hold heat.
    — Joe Songer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Spots and largemouths are still active along the grass edges, riprap and woody cover on the deeper flats—crankbaits, worms and jigs get them; www.markcollinsguideservice.com.
    — Frank Sargeant, al.com, 7 June 2019
  • In Miami-Dade, that’s why new seawalls are required to have a pile of rocks — known as riprap — at their base.
    — Alex Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Both suggested fishing the riprap, gravel and rock areas for the pre-spawn fish.
    — Terry Wickstrom, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
  • The clay slope was covered with a layer of cement and heavy stones, and the downstream slope was made of earth and massive boulders called riprap.
    — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Try in the riprap areas using crank baits, plastic worms or spinner baits.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Sheepshead are becoming active on shell beds and rocky structure throughout the bay, around the gas rigs and riprap--live shrimp is the ticket; www.ateamfishing.com.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Smallmouth poor, but can be caught along the shoreline and riprap face of the dam using spoons and shallow crankbaits; white bass fair lakewide on jigs and minnows.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In 2015, the town placed tons of boulders into the river as riprap preventing further movement of the slope.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 22 June 2017
  • Topwaters work over the beds, above hydrilla and coontail that has not topped out and along hard edges like seawalls and riprap banks.
    — Joe Songer, AL.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The second was that the riprap stones shoring up the slope from the sidewalk were originally loose and small enough that people could walk off with them, Polensek said.
    — James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
  • But the missing picnic table near the riprap turned my schadenfreude into guilt.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Part of that work involved adding rocks, also known as riprap, to the shoreline to try and keep water from encroaching.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2020
  • People couldn’t walk on someone’s riprap wall, for instance.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Keeper reds are around the gas rigs, points, riprap and bridge pilings, taking live croakers and shrimp as well as jigs with soft plastic tails.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Reds are more often found on shell bottom and around riprap where there’s current flowing to bring bait past them—live shrimp or jigs get them.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 June 2021
  • Blue catfish over 60 pounds are present; bass – good in the riprap areas using crank baits, plastic worms or spinner baits.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Soon, a train hauling 24 gondolas and groaning with tons of riprap inched toward us.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The new pathway will pass by the city’s Small Boat Launch, a sliver of a harbor on a thumb of asphalt and riprap poking into the mud flats at the northwest corner of the city.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In recent weeks, contractors have added more boulders to the existing riprap along the beach to protect the railroad.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The city in January 2015 approved of the riprap but then reversed its position a few months later, state records show.
    — OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Beneath the sandy hummocks are riprap and cobblestones, substances that were already in the area before the project began.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2019
  • The commission hired a contractor to stabilize banks with riprap.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023

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