“The pair waded through waist-deep freezing water to reach a woman who had fallen down an embankment in Broadbent.”

“The six giant grey cattle thundered along the embankment, their nostrils jetting steam in the cold air of a Hungarian autumn morning.”

“Suddenly, Urlacher steps over one of the fences, breaks into a jog down an embankment and on to the field.”

“The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments.”

“A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher embankments to keep the rivers at bay.”

“The lines, characterised by deep cuttings, high embankments, tunnels and viaducts, were known by locomotive crews as the Alpine Route.”