Voorbeelden van sandbagging

• Sandbagging is necessary as a precautionary measure in these cases.

• It is no good merely sandbagging the defences and leaving it at that.

• I can go to villages 50 miles from a city to find railway companies still busy sandbagging one corner.

• It was they who rescued the people; it was they who dealt with the sandbagging of the river banks, preventing the flooding getting worse.

• I have received no reports that the sandbagging at hospitals and first-aid posts has been carried out in such a way as to impede the approach of ambulances.

• Likewise, staff from many local authorities were keeping their defences in order, clearing debris from culverts, and sandbagging, saving many properties from the effects of flooding.

• The practice of rating a climb below its actual difficulty is known as sandbagging.

• Officials will be standing at the 1,000 and 1,320 foot markers to observe if a driver is sandbagging.