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Example sentences for: ballast

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Cobblestone streets (the stones were brought as ballast on the Spanish ships, which went home filled with treasure and gold), tiny squares, and grand plazas surprise visitors at every turn as they wander the neat grid of streets planned four centuries ago.
Also, suburbanization shattered the old urban institutions, the pubs and fraternal societies, that once provided the ballast for Irish communities.
Ted Kennedy's "love diet," a seaweed-rich plan that has helped the "bloated blimp" with "enough ballast to sink the Titanic " become a shadow of his former self.
Here they would take on a new cargo of cotton — a most profitable ballast that increased in value tenfold by the time it was delivered to buyers in Britain.
If Wagner's operas can be excerpted for concert performance, and Stravinsky's ballet scores have a life of their own, why can't the soundtrack jettison its celluloid ballast and soar?