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Recent Examples of pothole
The first obstacle is a massive 8-ft (2.5-m) pothole filled with water.
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New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025
And then now imagine the pothole gets a little bit bigger and a little bit deeper and the road's a little bit more cracked up.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure NDOT has six pothole repair crews out identifying and repairing potholes on primary and secondary routes and assessments will continue on neighborhood streets.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The pothole Brenda had seen was on its way to becoming a crevasse.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025
And then now imagine the pothole gets a little bit bigger and a little bit deeper and the road's a little bit more cracked up.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure NDOT has six pothole repair crews out identifying and repairing potholes on primary and secondary routes and assessments will continue on neighborhood streets.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The pothole Brenda had seen was on its way to becoming a crevasse.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pothole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothole
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The groundwater act, passed in 2014, aims to ensure a more sustainable use of groundwater after years of over-pumping, which depleted basins and eroded water quality in some rural areas.—
Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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From obscurity to fame Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six mountain ranges above the Sichuan basin, deep in China’s hinterland.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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Experts there said in a statement the impacts of the weekend’s extreme rainfall in Nepal have been exacerbated by rampant development and urbanization, including unplanned construction on floodplains and poor drainage.—
Helen Regan,
CNN,
30 Sep. 2024
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Millions of people live in at-risk mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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California’s largest fire in 2024 started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico.—
Virginia Iglesias,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Hirschfield raped Gonsalves and dumped both of the teenagers’ bodies in a ravine about 30 miles east of Davis in Sacramento County, where they were found by police three days later.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
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The enormous reservoir sits at the confluence of the U.S. and Mexico borders, and the views offer a mix of steep-walled river canyons and wide-open waterways with 12 public boat ramps and 7 paddling trails.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2025
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One side of our canyon is scorched bare, yet miraculously, firefighters managed to save our little community with 30 structures lost.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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These days, electric kettles come in various sizes and different kinds of spouts.—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
27 Jan. 2025
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In addition to its beautiful design, the kettle also features a sturdy wooden handle and eye-catching lid complete with brass details and a glass knob to add extra flair.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
23 Jan. 2025
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Starting at the rear wheel, check the brake, tire, axle and derailleur, then move on to the saddle and seatpost, then the cranks, bottom bracket and pedals, then the cockpit and headset, and finally the front wheel and brake.—
Seb Stott,
Outside Online,
27 Jan. 2025
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are looking to get back in the saddle.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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Driven by 20 mushers and more than 150 dogs, the relay of sled teams navigated a blizzard, hidden crevasses in the snow and ice, and the continual darkness of the Arctic winter.—
David Kindy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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But 15 years later Sjögren is a sorry sight, wrinkled with crevasses and sagging in the middle.—
Douglas Fox,
Scientific American,
1 July 2012
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From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
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In the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiere, did Wim’s dad seem to find him pretty quickly, considering that that gulch was a long speeder bike ride away from home?—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Pothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothole. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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