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# sandbag

«sandbag» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bag filled with sand, used to build walls against…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sandbag, sandbags); verb (sandbag, sandbags, sandbagged, sandbagging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sandbag is a bag filled with sand, used to build walls against floods or to make barriers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#m1)

2) To sandbag a place is to protect it with sandbags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#m2)

3) (informal, sport and games) To sandbag is to pretend to be weaker than you are so you can win later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and news: before floods, people put sandbags in front of doors. In maths: counting and weighing sandbags. In games, sandbagging is a sneaky trick. Phrases: «fill sandbags», «a wall of sandbags».

### examples

- Volunteers filled sandbags before the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x1)
- We piled sandbags against the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x2)
- Each sandbag weighs 15 kg; 10 sandbags weigh 150 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x3)
- Soldiers sheltered behind a wall of sandbags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x4)
- The town was sandbagged against the rising river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x5)
- Stop sandbagging — I know you can run faster! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/#x6)

### note

Double g in the verb: sandbagged, sandbagging. One word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sandbag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandbag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.