How To Use Pothole In A Sentence
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The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles.
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The potholes go halfway up the tire.
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The road surface had become uneven with potholes and poor camber.
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The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you.
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The road to economic recovery is full of potholes.
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We want roads, screamed one; No more potholes, squealed another.
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Along the way the potholes got filled, the cobbles were nicely asphalted, the hoardings were stripped of their multi-layered messages, and the chill damp was replaced with warmth and light.
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The residents echoed that there were gaping potholes on the roads.
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Motorists who have hit potholes on roads in Wiltshire are planning to take legal action to recover the money they have paid out to repair their cars.
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On a perfectly-macadamed, butter-like road, the perfect ekka should make one feel that it is full of potholes.
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The case, to be decided within the next six months, will have major impact on the fate of prairie potholes, natural ponds and mudflats, which provide vital habitat for waterfowl.
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The new road spares visitors a 90-minute drive over winding, potholed tracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider.
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Any chance of getting unemployed construction workers to fill the potholes that pepper the roads?
Times, Sunday Times
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Motorists have to navigate between potholes when using either routes and the surface of the roadway has disintegrated in places.
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Big cavities formed in this way collapse under the weight of traffic to produce potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cherokee heaved over submerged boulders, settled into potholes so deep you drove down one side and up the other.
DOLL'S EYES
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As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
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The second feature is a deep cave or pothole on Wet Rain Hill, just above Liz's Burn, called Bell Hollow.
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As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
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Southend Crown Court heard how his vehicle hit a pothole which caused it to sway from side to side before tipping over and trapping his leg.
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But in the short term, when all they can think of is day-to-day survival, it is in their interest to keep the road with its potholes, so they can tax people as they go through it.
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The report did say that uneven road surfaces and potholes were quite dangerous and showed an inconsistency with the town centre.
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The next wake-up moment came when he said that he was giving us 100 million to fix potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
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In fact, our unabashed dictionary describes a road as a strip of metalled surface connecting potholes.
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During the hectic work schedule it was hoped they would visit the deepest pothole in Asia, the Ghar Parau, discovered by an English expedition in 1971 which reached 751 metres deep.
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The pavement ended and I wound through potholes and deep ruts wider than three of my tires put together.
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An epidemic of potholes in roads has erupted across the country, a legacy of the cold winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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She says she cannot even push Colin to the local shops because of all the potholes and the uneven surface.
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The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new (very expensive) upper road is holding up well.
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These roads were tarred just six months ago and with the recent rains, deep potholes have emerged.
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Rubble and slush from potholes and mud dumped recklessly by the cable companies and various civic agencies have only added to citizens' woes.
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He drove into a huge pothole and wrecked the truck.
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The potholed six-mile feeder road leading from the east-coast highway to Quilesse takes an hour to drive.
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It's analogous to waterfowl studies iin the prairie pothole region; they've shown if the habitat is there, enough birds survive.
Whither the Woodcock?
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Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads.
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Traffic jams were seen during the rush hours due to waterlogged and potholed roads.
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And then... you hit a pothole!
The Sun
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The car's suspension is so good that when you hit a pothole you hardly notice it.
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He said the grant was used for programmes such as filling potholes, repairing pavements and improving footpaths in the borough.
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The black cloud descended lower over them as the car jolted over the pothole strewn country lane through the hills.
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Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads.
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Wheel alignment can easily be knocked out of true by potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops.
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The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem.
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A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before.
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A council is recruiting members of the public to fill in potholes that it cannot afford to repair itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger.
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They have just spent four weeks in the Guilin area - close to the Vietnam border - investigating local potholes with a view to identifying a potential show cave.
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Thankfully someone had the bright idea to water down the dusty potholed road between Laborie and Piaye.
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I stood barefoot on the dirt road, sludge and rain quickly filling the potholes pockmarking it.
Crescendo
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The cottage is situated in the middle of a wood at the end of a narrow potholed lane.
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The county council did not fill the pothole despite warnings from police.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van.
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The farm is about an hour and a half's drive on potholed roads from Zhanjiang, the closest big city in this part of Guangdong.
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But hey, that's just me, speaking as a Montrealer, where rioting is almost as ubiquitous in this city as seedy strip clubs, poutine, and potholes.
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Earby potholers made a return visit to Pikedaw caves, between Settle and Malham, to continue their exploration of a previously undiscovered hole.
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The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
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"Some of our rural roads are in terrible condition, littered with potholes.
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Trash collection has improved, he said, leaf pickup has resumed and more than 35, 000 potholes have been patched.
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For decades too it had no storm water drainage, resulting in potholes and dongas opening up.
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The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension.
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There is pronounced scuttle shake over potholes too, but this kind of critique really misses the point.
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I have to add up the numbers and decide whether I'm going to fill potholes out on Rt. 36 east of Abilene or commit funds to reroof the sheep barn at the Texas state fairgrounds.
Canadian Cynic
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Mine recently sent me on a bumpy cross-country trip on potholed non-motorway roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, try to steer clear of the shoulder, bumpy patches and potholes, which can be tough on your tires.
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Mr Smith drove into one of the potholes because it was too large to avoid without swerving dangerously.
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How often do we, the hard-pressed citizens, ponder this topic as we bump along potholed roads or survey the latest round of digging up along our main streets?
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She carefully steered the car around the potholes.
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With every thaw and refreeze that a pothole endures, it gets harder to repair.
Times, Sunday Times
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TV sports storm trackers rarely see this kind of harmonic convergence: A pothole stopping traffic in America's most media-genic fast lane, a basketball game played before a bigger live audience than any Super Bowl has ever had even as Winter Olympics action originates from a viewer-friendly time zone.
Sunday's TV sports mix was game for ratings
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We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac.
Times, Sunday Times
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As part of the cuts, potholes in roads are likely to go unmended and social housing unbuilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our roads are full of potholes and irregular surfacing.
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Miscarraiges, dislocated shoulders, broken bones, damaged axels there is enough reason for people to be concerned over the city's potholed roads.
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The road leading up to the bridge is pitted with large, deep potholes.
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The manufacturer says its dual-blade configuration eliminates potholes, ruts, and washboarding without leaving windrows or pushing aggregate out of the roadway.
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How about they charge cyclists a nominal road tax fee which could go towards pothole repairs?
The Sun
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So at least try to avoid the potholes.
The Sun
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I also noticed some body flex due to loss of structural rigidity with the whole car shuddering over potholes in the roads.
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There was a four-day intensive course at headquarters in Birkenshaw, run by instructors who are experienced climbers and potholers.
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He said that after an assessment has been made, some potholes were usually repaired within 24 hours, but deeper holes could take two or three days or sometimes up to a week.
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Any chance of getting unemployed construction workers to fill the potholes that pepper the roads?
Times, Sunday Times
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Motorists, who were left stranded after their cars struck a monster pothole, are demanding to know why the council did not issue warnings.
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A machine that can repair potholes in just two minutes with a robotic arm is undergoing its first tests.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then we might get our potholes filled in.
The Sun
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Add in the odd pothole and off-camber corner and it's like a multigym for your car.
Times, Sunday Times
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A machine with a robotic arm that can repair potholes in a flash is being tested in England for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Power gave an undertaking that potholes on the road would be filled and that adequate lighting would be provided on barrels while the work was ongoing.
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Being world class is not just holding glittering events but roads on which traffic can move at an average and safe speed of at least 40 kmph. without frequent swerves and stops to avoid potholes.
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The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands.
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The potholes go halfway up the tire.
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The road surface had become uneven with potholes and poor camber.
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I settled back into my seat as much as I could as we rolled over the various rocks, potholes, and ruts in the road.
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Huge potholes mar the surface, only half the road per se is motorable, there is no system of demarcated drains and the entire stretch is one filthy mess.
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If it all sounds heavy going, that's because it is: Pearson is an emotional potholer - and he's come back clutching diamonds.
Evening Standard - Home
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He said the council had put stones into the potholes a few weeks ago and they had already been washed away by the rains.
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The roads just a stone's throw from the international airport in Lusaka, Zambia's capital city, are unsurfaced and potholed on the way into the city.
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More than this there is a sense that the emotional notes are perhaps muted, that we crave something more flawed, a more rugged and potholed contest, less exactingly marshalled and stewarded.
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We have issued strict instructions to the area engineers to fill potholes as and when they are appear.
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The roadside features such as curbstone edges, potholes, streetcar tracks etc. frequently rattle the nerves of any bicyclist.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size.
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While jogging in the countryside, Kotaro a pothole together with his pet dog.
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Water and sewage leakages also create traffic congestion as the roads become potholed.
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The ride feels quite stiff at first and the XV batters away at road seams and potholes, which report through the bodyshell like distant gunfire.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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We need comfortable cars capable of surviving our increasingly potholed roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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IKENNE, Nigeria — After driving two hours — skirting truck-size potholes, fording a flooded town and dodging a body — Pieter Swanepoel arrives at a dilapidated farm about 50 miles from Lagos, Nigeria.
Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb
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The uneven pavement was constructed of badly cracked flagstones and potholed by menacing holes where black water festered from past rain showers.
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Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain.
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Suddenly, her heel caught in a pothole and her body slammed to the ground.
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The latest global rage is yarn-bombing, a wool-based graffiti in which knitting fanatics drape potholes, cars and statues in crazy cosies.
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The desert roads are pitted with potholes.
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We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac.
Times, Sunday Times
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One can perhaps see more potholes than the road itself in most localities of our city.
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On Tuesday morning when I passed the spot on the other side of the carriageway I saw an earth mover and a gang at work to restore the caved in road and fill up the potholes.
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The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper.
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The construction manager has just had his 127th prang after driving into a pothole, reported the newspaper.
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St Jude - A potholer, a comic book writer - you never cease to amaze me with your past incarnations!
Ramblings of the Bearded One
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While surface potholes and cracks can be patched over, the long-term damage beneath stores up problems which will quickly resurface.
The Sun
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Normal, everyday potholes are just cracks in the surface, but in this case an underground tunnel is shifting - and the problem can reach many feet underground.
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The highway developed large potholes and irregular bumps and hollows.
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Town halls across the UK have paid 12 million in compensation over four years to motorists whose cars were damaged by potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bends and twists, the potholes and the flooding were all cited as major drawbacks for motorists.
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Officials said it struck a pothole on the runway, hit a pylon and then plunged into a house near the airport in the town of Busia.
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No lights, just deep potholes, and lorries piling out of a huge factory and sending up clouds of dust.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frequently you see motorists zigzagging from left side to right of unadopted roads to avoid potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also much less chance of damaging tyres or rims in a pothole.
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He says many residents are fed up with the potholes and uneven surface.
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The Bulgarian team investigated, explored and made maps of nine caves and potholes, all of them 4km long.
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He oozes casual masculinity and in Silurians he's seen as car mechanic, a T-shirted, jeans wearing forensic scientist and a potholer whilst in Ambassadors he's a bone fide astronaut (compare him to the Troughton figure in The Seeds Of Death and you'll see how the tone has shifted).
British Blogs
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After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town.
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A council is recruiting members of the public to fill in potholes that it cannot afford to repair itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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New white lines will be painted, potholes repaired and underground gulleys will be cleared to improve drainage.
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Trash collection has improved, he said, leaf pickup has resumed and more than 35, 000 potholes have been patched.
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Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development.
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The pavements on the road are fast disappearing and there are innumerable potholes on the entire stretch.
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I reached to pull it down, only to hit a pothole.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain.
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According to DiNubile, both mosaicplasty and microfracture are regenerative methods to repair a chondral defect or what DiNubile explains as a pothole in the joint cushion.
NY Daily News
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While the air system is good, it fidgets badly over sharp intrusions like potholes, jarring and jolting the passengers.
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The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces.
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In the most extreme cases, drivers crashed after hitting potholes and losing control of their vehicles.
Times, Sunday Times
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A council is recruiting members of the public to fill in potholes that it cannot afford to repair itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the rainy season, daily downpours turn the potholes into puddles as big as ponds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember at one point hitting yet another pothole, and the bakkie sinking and tipping at an acute angle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The road surface is pitted with potholes and strewn with potentially dangerous objects.
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Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
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Ross: Do you think you could repair my tire? I hit a pothole.
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It was pointed out that those who knew avoided the pothole by running the danger of head-on collision with the on coming traffic.
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For potholes or wide cracks, shovel packaged blacktop into a well-cleaned hole and then use an iron rake to level large patches.
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I had tripped in one of the hundreds of potholes that pit my road and shrieked in pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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A great mass of citizenry washed past on foot or bicycle as we negotiated the potholed high street on the river bank and turned on to the barrage across the Tigris built by the British in 1935.
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Still, even while driving in and out of Irish potholes, you'll hear no squeak or feel no squirm from the structure or fittings.
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Certainly there are potholes in the lake which mean it is 100 ft deep in places, so there is always winter-cold water below the surface, however hot the day.
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There is a vast expanse of potholed wasteland that serves as a car park.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trains and buses have timetables, roads are pothole free and water is entirely drinkable.
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We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac.
Times, Sunday Times
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Town halls across the UK have paid 12 million in compensation over four years to motorists whose cars were damaged by potholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest would go into a fund to improve infrastructure, such as potholed roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form.
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They's a pothole right before the four-way stop up ahead, though.
SORT OF RICH
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They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
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The cottage is situated in the middle of a wood at the end of a narrow potholed lane.
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Potholes are craters formed in otherwise motorable roads.
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Her foot scuffed the pavement and chipped the side of a shallow pothole.
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In the rainy season, daily downpours turn the potholes into puddles as big as ponds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had tripped in one of the hundreds of potholes that pit my road and shrieked in pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to go slower over speed bumps and avoid certain roads because of potholes or dips.
Times, Sunday Times
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Avoid bumps and potholes, which reduce forward momentum.
Times, Sunday Times
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This appears to be an obvious reference to the need for road users to go round the potholes - the byroad in question is adjacent to a network of roundabouts on the Laois / Carlow border.
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Stinting on infrastructural allocations may leave potholes for three years, but stinting on higher education means closing off access for three years and losing a generation.
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They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
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The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes.
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We may ask potholers to establish a voluntary code of practice, such as not going in at dusk, when they may disturb the bats leaving the cave.
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Prairie pothole marshes were present in two small prairie potholes that often dry completely in the summer.
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A motorist who claims her car wheel was buckled by a pothole in a road has been told by Bradford Council she will not receive compensation.
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Garbage confettied the ground, and potholes full of waste water glistened stagnantly.
Over the Edge
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And as a result of all the growth, plush restaurants have popped up beside the potholed roads and property prices have shot up, especially for trendy condominiums.
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Perhaps his priority should be building new roads and repairing motorway potholes to really get the wheels of industry running smoothly.
The Sun
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The approach roads are full of potholes and the main road leading to Hoshiarpur is in a bad shape.
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Light steering was reactive enough to inspire confidence while firm handling and suspension remained settled around S-bends and potholes.
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Numerous river channels in the great southern delta were diverted again and again creating ever-increasing land masses and vegetated marshes interspersed with myriads of channels, potholes, and shallow lakes.
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All participants will be happy to know that the hedges have been clipped and the potholes are filled all ready for a great evening out.
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Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls.
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Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form.
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The council would be better off spending it on the potholes in our road.
The Sun
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It was still raining: potholes, felled trees, mud, slush and scattered rocks made it difficult to negotiate the highway.
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Spend the money on public transport and fixing potholes instead, they say.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the rainy season, daily downpours turn the potholes into puddles as big as ponds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roads once built are seldom repaired and with heavy use soon delaminate into a lunar surface of cracks and potholes.
Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
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We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
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A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole.
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Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes.
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The car's suspension is so good that when you hit a pothole you hardly notice it.
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The machine's robotic arm extends from the cab over the pothole and fills it.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there is also an extremely large portion of the country that has roads that are a much lesser quality, they have a lot of potholes, a lot of them are not asphalted to a great degree.
Nano Diaries: Tiny Car Makes Big India Road Trip
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This month too frequent cloudbursts will turn these potholes into lakes.
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In return, the pothole is fixed and the name of your company or organisation is written on the repair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some environmental activists yesterday inspect the Nuanjiang section of the Keelung River, where geologically unique potholes are to be found.
