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macadamize

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  1. surface with macadam
    macadam the road

How To Use macadamize In A Sentence

  • They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)
  • From this time forward every year added a few miles to the macadamized roads of the county.
  • A broad macadamized road, leading south from Williamsport, Maryland, to Lexington, Virginia, was built at an early day to connect the interior of the latter State with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and along this road are situated the principal towns and villages of the Shenandoah Valley, with lateral lines of communication extending to the mountain ranges on the east and west. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • Tarmac was originally marketed as tar-macadam, because it was a macadamized road incorporating a binder of tar.
  • Many have macadamized roads through them, and, indeed, are not gaps, but small valleys through the main chain.
  • A little success in this first enterprise led him to take up contracting as a business, which he followed on various canals and macadamized roads then building in different parts of the State of Ohio, with some good fortune for awhile, but in 1853 what little means he had saved were swallowed up She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • More delightful roads could not be desired; smooth, level, macadamized, devoid of stones and requiring little effort on the pedals.
  • Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
  • Following the route of the current day Country Road 42, this was a macadamized road for the use of which the grumbling traveller had to pay a toll during much of its early history.
  • Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. North Carolina and its Resources.
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