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How to use pothole in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Pothole means a shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic. Example: “In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.”

Examples of pothole by meaning

nounA shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic.

  • I was so tired that potholes, fumes and noise aside, I slept regardless, my head rag-dolling from side to side.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 86
  • The previous Elantra had three problems: The steering hero-worshiped Novocain, occupants grew hoarse from shouting over road noise, and large potholes betrayed a lack of structure.2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times, archived from the...
  • That's enough to fill 18,000 potholes.2022 February 9, “Network News: Prime Minister "blew nearly £1m" on Northern Ireland bridge study”, in RAIL, number 950, page 20

More sentences with pothole

  • In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.From the entry dig
  • The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.From the entry shovel
  • I was unseated from my bike after hitting an unexpected pothole.From the entry unseat
  • I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute.From the entry happy camper
  • The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.From the entry shool
  • I hit a pothole at high speed and my motorbike went straight into a death wobble.From the entry death wobble
  • I've sustained some front-end damage after running into a pothole.From the entry run into
  • Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.From the entry slough
  • And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!2021 May 5, “Open Access: Saving our structures”, in RAIL, number 930, page 40. From the entry bottomless
  • Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes.2014, Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road, ITV Granada. From the entry tarmac
  • He said the metalling of the roads had started to come off and the potholes marking the roads were causing accidents.2012 April 2, Editorial staff, “DM [District Magistrate] annoyed over poor quality of work”, in Tribune News Service, Chandigarh, India…. From the entry metalling
  • These ant autobahns function much the same as human highways to speed transport of goods and to reduce bumps and potholes in the path.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry autobahn
  • When you're traveling Michigan roads and cussing out the potholes, MDOT wants you to know that THEY know that pothole patches don't last.2014 April 16, Diane E Coston, “MDOT Addressing Pot Hole Myth with RealityCheck”, in WHTC.com, retrieved 19 Apr 2014. From the entry cuss out
  • Approaching along a narrow, beferned side track, oozing moisture and dampness, you are led right into the bowels of one of the many giant potholes.2013, A. S. Goudie, R. Gardner, Discovering Landscape in England & Wales, page 158. From the entry beferned
  • For now, matatus made lanes along both sides of tarmac main roads and went over, around or through potholes depending on their speed.2010, Philo Ikonya, Leading the Night, page 102. From the entry matatu
  • But once upon a time, bitterns nested in every pothole marsh and every streamside cattail patch from British Columbia to Newfoundland and from Florida to California.1988 April 22, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry streamside
  • The off-ramp handbrake spin-'n'-sprint, the salt-truck joust, the 10-meter pothole puddle jump — all were good ideas rejected because of logistical problems or the likelihood that we would be sued.2003, Car and Driver - Volume 48, page 111. From the entry puddle jump

Meaning of pothole

  1. noun A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic.
  2. noun A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
  3. noun A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.

Full definition of pothole

Questions about pothole in a sentence

How do you use pothole in a sentence?
Pothole is used as a noun. For example: “In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.”
What is a short sentence with pothole?
“That's enough to fill 18,000 potholes.”
What does pothole mean?
Pothole means a shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion, weather or traffic.

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