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sandbag1 nounsandbag2 verb sandbagsand‧bag1 /ˈsændbæɡ/ noun [countable]  - Emergency workers built a sandbag barricade as 60 patients were put on evacuation stand-by.
- He also collected sandbags and wood to barricade the Legation buildings.
- Mickey Andrews describes their use: We would only fill a sandbag about two-thirds full.
- Simple tasks like filling sandbags or carrying water to the shower area were suddenly difficult.
- Swiftly, Ace clambered over the red-stained sandbags, and checked the door.
- The men inside the Camp Holloway compound slept behind sandbag walls and had bunkers to duck into if the mortars came.
- Under bright overhead lights at one end of the shed a chair had been positioned, banked on three sides by sandbags.
a bag filled with sand, used for protection against floods, explosions etcsandbag1 nounsandbag2 verb sandbagsandbag2 verb (past tense and past participle sandbagged, present participle sandbagging)  VERB TABLEsandbag |
Present | I, you, we, they | sandbag | | he, she, it | sandbags | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sandbagged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sandbagged | | he, she, it | has sandbagged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sandbagged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sandbag | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sandbagged |
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Present | I | am sandbagging | | he, she, it | is sandbagging | | you, we, they | are sandbagging | Past | I, he, she, it | was sandbagging | | you, we, they | were sandbagging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sandbagging | | he, she, it | has been sandbagging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sandbagging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sandbagging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sandbagging |
- Morley accused Franklin of sandbagging him by not telling him the full story.
- About 1 a.m., sandbagging is finished.
- Haller said all sandbagging was finished about 1 a.m.
- Residents continue to sandbag about 25 homes to protect them from the river.
- So the 49ers were sandbagging in the preseason, throwing their fourth-stringers to the wolves and saving the first-stringers for the season.
- Symmetrical coils of barbed wire obstructed most streets, and houses were sloppily sandbagged.
- Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom.
- Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach.
1[intransitive, transitive] to put sandbags around a building in order to protect it from a flood or explosion2[transitive] to treat someone unfairly in order to prevent them from doing something or being successful |