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Meanings of tarmacadam in English
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Examples for "tarmac"
Examples for "tarmac"
1
Outside, broken pavements and deteriorating tarmac are also in need of replacement.
2
Tenet's plane sat on the tarmac, behind other government planes, for hours.
3
He pulled her backward and let her drop naturally onto the tarmac.
4
Now I hear the fairy crunches of army tires on the tarmac.
5
I'd been framed, literally from the moment I'd stepped onto Tuzla's tarmac.
1
The soil makes a natural macadam, which dries in a few hours.
2
Taillights reflected on the surface of the water streaming across the macadam.
3
Paulsen-Fuchs' Citröen sputtered along the rugged single-lane macadam road, snow chains grinding.
4
He parked at the edge of the macadam apron, behind the drop-offs.
5
The rich creosote smell of wet macadam rose up to his nostrils.
Usage of tarmacadam in English
1
When it was finished we put in a tarmacadam driveway.
2
Outside a tarmacadam driveway leads to a large garage and there is a side entrance.
3
The promenade is 22 metres wide, of which the tarmacadam path is four metres wide.
4
He said vandals had damaged the paving slabs, and tarmacadam used in a repair had degenerated.
5
It is the ancestor of our modern asphalt or tarmacadam roadway (tarmac for short).
6
A bird has been laying eggs on a piece of plastic on the tarmacadam outside the house.
7
Their latest initiative is to widen all the island roads and to tarmacadam all the laneways and boreens.
8
Life had not only persisted in such inhospitable circumstances but also flourished with enough strength to buckle tarmacadam.
9
The original stone-shod military way has largely disappeared under a modern tarmacadam road winding its way through the mountains.
10
Broken glass and rubbish are strewn around the flat-roofed buildings, and weeds and grass poke through the uneven tarmacadam.
11
Two years ago a large part of the lawn of Leinster House was dug up and plastered over with tarmacadam.
12
Her mother Frances across the tarmacadam at Dublin Airport, showing some turn of pace herself, to hug her feted daughter.
13
Built around 1600, this unusual and handsome property is completely hidden from the road behind security gates down a tarmacadam drive.
14
Outside, impressive black iron gates lead to a tarmacadam forecourt and two side entrances give access to a secluded rear garden.
15
It was opened as a nursing home in 1947 and is at the entrance to the town, approached by a tarmacadam driveway.
16
The forlorn wrecks of cars and motorbikes dotting southern Sudan's potholed dirt racks and rare tarmacadam roads might signal chaos to some.
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