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n. (plural of retaining wall English)
Usage examples of "retaining walls".
Beyond the next curve, the retaining walls give way to wooden fences at the bottom of large, overgrown gardens.
Some retaining walls were only a foot high, while the next step up or down the mountain might be a twenty-foot wall.
Later, I knew, when we reached the foundations of the two outer retaining walls, we would have real troubles.
Down by the river were quays, most of the retaining walls made of vertical logs, a few of stone, the surfaces paved.
As if the mud wasn't enough, the ditch's smooth, perma-crete retaining walls were over four meters tall.
One could flee from the slide or build retaining walls against it or be crushed —.
To their left again, a short set of railed steps descended between the concrete-block foundations of the girders overhead and banked retaining walls.
A winding driveway dropped down between retaining walls to the open iron gates.
There was a strip of lawn three meters below them, then terraces behind low brick retaining walls, flowerbanks and cypresses, fountains and stairways.
They had made their way up marble stairs and along tiled paths through trees and shrubs and flowers, including dozens of different kinds of roses, with statues and fountains scattered casually in the greenery or against retaining walls or in the middle of terraces or on the pedestals of staircases.