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• The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.From the entry shovel
• The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.From the entry shool
• Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 22, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. From the entry shimmer
• A military-grade runway ran the length of the island, and army vehicles trundled across the tarmac.2018 September 20, Hannah Beech, “China’s Sea Control Is a Done Deal, ‘Short of War With the U.S.’”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific…. From the entry Fiery Cross Reef
• The tarmac road glistened oilily, the sun poured down, there was a strong smell of warm tar.1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 158. From the entry oilily
• Tattersalls, adjacent to the County Stand, has no seating but stepped terracing and a large tarmac area down to the rails.2004, Sports Ticket. From the entry tattersalls
• The palms of TV looked especially welcome as the plane clumpered down on a hazy tarmac in a greenish, weedy field.1991, Alexander Buzo, Prue Flies North, page 68. From the entry clumper
• Head down Mount Butler and turn left down the wide tarmac road, which winds to Quarry Bay and finishes near exit A of the MTR.2020 May 13, Mark Agnew, “The best hikes with views of Hong Kong – take in the skyline from a new and unique angle”, in South China…. From the entry Mount Butler
• The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.2014, Samantha Nash, All Muck and Mullets, page 43. From the entry kerby
• 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
• After 14 hours of flying, we arrived at Osaka airport, where I was able to digibin this Black-backed Wagtail on the tarmac.2006 December 14, R.J. Hall, “Birding Noumea”, in A Brit abroad (blog), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024. From the entry digibin
• The road was a straight band of tarmac and, on either side, there were strips of red dirt with paddy-melon growing over them.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 76. From the entry paddymelon
• Many people can't work from home - as one wag observed: "Well, I would, but the wife doesn't like me laying tarmac in the front room!"2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 70. From the entry wag
• Standing still in the middle of the close, I watched how his steel-toecapped boots crashed into the tarmac, one step after another, and how they came to a stop.2020, Clare Boyd, My Perfect Wife. From the entry toecapped
• You cannot walk the other side because the walled garden meets the road direct in pools of spangled tarmac after rain; the open gutter choking up with leaves.2016 January 16, Sarah Howe, “The Saturday poem: The Walled Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry walled garden
• At the end of a buttock-clenching trip, we landed to find Eritrean helicopters crouched on the tarmac of an airport that had just been bombed by Ethiopian jets.2012, Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It For You, page 19. From the entry buttock-clenching
• Tracks and roads were at first rough and rutted, and quickly became quagmires in the rainy seasons before being surfaced first with "murram" gravel, later with tarmac.1991, Donald B. Freeman, A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN…. From the entry murram
• Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tuzla, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq.2008 March 30, Frank Rich, “Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”, in New York Times. From the entry misvote

Meaning of tarmac

1. noun Tarmacadam.
2. noun Any bituminous road surfacing material.
3. noun The driveable surface of a road.

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Questions about tarmac in a sentence

How do you use tarmac in a sentence?

Tarmac is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.”

What is a short sentence with tarmac?

“The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.”

What does tarmac mean?

Tarmac means tarmacadam.