What is "sandbags"

Usage examples of "sandbags".

Behind sandbags and sheets of armor plate, behind overturned office furniture, there they lay, firing very intermittently.

And I am also thinking that the only thing I can do is to accept the two pesetas per head offered by the characters behind the sandbags when a very beautiful young Judy, with long black hair hanging down her back, approaches and speaks to me at some length in the Spanish language.

Manuel says the characters in the castle represent one side of the war in this Spain, and the characters behind the sandbags represent the other side, although Manuel does not seem to know which is which, and naturally I do not care.

Furthermore, Manuel says, when they are not sitting behind the sandbags, these characters are required to work every day digging a tunnel into the hill under the castle, and they regard this work as most enervating.

Behind the sandbags were three men in predark uniforms, two in military fatigues, the third dressed as a policeman.

Two of them boldly leaped out to gently assist her and the crying baby over the sandbags while the policeman fired the crossbow.

Five huge men stood behind the sandbags, longblasters over their shoulders, handblasters at their belts.

A cobbler, a baker, a barber, a school for small children, a gallows, a defense nest of sandbags and sec men.

The dozer plowed the front of the tunnel clear of planks, sandbags and corpses as the sec force spread out, immediately setting up defensive posts and starting a perimeter sweep for enemies.

The front door of the bank wasn't even visible through the stack of sandbags offering them protection from the storm.

Moving to the sandbags, they climbed over to find a dozen vehicles draped with window curtains and carpeting.

Then a tremendous blast filled the alleyway and sandbags cannonballed out, slamming into the stores across the street, smashing windows.

He was pushed into a line of men who were busy hauling sandbags up from the cellar.

These sandbags and other incongruous objects were piled up behind the plate-glass windows.

No sooner had his arm been swathed in white than he jumped up, seized his rifle, and started back to the rampart of sandbags, which was not, I think, quite bulletproof.