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County’s map of free sandbag distribution sites can be found here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The company’s global events can draw tens of thousands of athletes, testing their strength and endurance as they cycle through challenges like rowing, sandbag lunges, sled pushes and burpees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Do I have a sandbag to rest my head on while all this melee is happening around me?'

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Ultimately, Bertrand removes a 50-pound sandbag from the counterweight bin, tightens the sling, and realigns the wooden trough.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

And while his body was stiff as a sandbag, you could almost see him dancing inside it.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Doctors described how sandbags were set up to protect the building.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s reinforcing the boardwalk with lumber and using the aforementioned 3,000-pound sandbags to “deflect wave energy on the beach side of the bulkhead, the seawall,” Martin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

People could help prepare for floods by moving "the good stuff upstairs" and making sure they had sandbags to hand ahead of bad weather, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Local officials earlier this week distributed sandbags to residents in vulnerable communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

And I knew his bunker assignment: Bunker Six, a pile of sandbags at the southwest corner of the perimeter.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

But these soldiers, in Shaab-al-Jinn in Lahj governorate, showed us new sandbagged defences - new lines in the sand.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

While shop owners sandbagged the entrances to their stores and boarded up the doors and windows, there was little sense of impending disaster.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The neo-Baroque opera house is no longer sandbagged, but the war still feels ever present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

"The president called to check on me. I told him I got sandbagged," McConnell joked to reporters, referencing President Joe Biden's explanation for his fall last month.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023

The ground-floor windows had been sandbagged, and every skylight cemented over.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Starting any new car company in America, let alone an electric one, requires uncanny maneuvering and persistence against every kind of bureaucratic, regulatory and political sandbagging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Institute experts also looked at the possibility of models "sandbagging" - or strategically hiding their true capabilities from testers.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

In a further sandbagging of any big-city swagger Seattle has left, its citizens will have to drive to a Walgreens near suburban Issaquah if they need a pharmacist’s help in the wee hours.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

Bill Hwang is seeking the dismissal of his U.S. fraud indictment over the collapse of his once-$36 billion Archegos Capital Management LP, saying prosecutors committed misconduct by sandbagging him when building their case.

From Reuters ● Dec. 5, 2022

The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan