Sentence examples for cold patch from inspiring English sources

Second, while the technique known as cold patch works for a while, it is not a permanent solution.

"Cold patch is throw-and-go, while with hot asphalt, you got to pack it yourself," Mr. Lent said.

Nowadays Stamford's pothole repairs last longer, up to a year with cold patch and several years with asphalt.

Mr. Gerbert can remember when he first started with the bureau, in the mid-1990's, and the cold patch (a cold-weather substitute for asphalt) then in use would break up after just a couple of days.

Emotion at such times is reduced to bodily response ("There was a slight tautness to the rear of his throat"; "Pat felt a cold patch forming somewhere in the region of the base of his spine").

If chunks are missing or the end or sides are crumbling, the spot can be filled with cold patch, a granulated asphalt that does not need to be heated or mixed with anything to be used ($15 to $20 for a 50-pound bag).

But the coverage was spotty, with cold patches at various places.

Inflation (which explains why the universe is, in a three-dimensional sense, flat) predicts what the statistical distribution of hot and cold patches should be.

Hotter patches can ruin the weld, and cold patches will take too long to heat up to welding temperature.

With no hot asphalt mixed up on the weekend, however, the workers used cold-patch asphalt, which hardens almost immediately in cold weather but is harder to work with.

As Wiggins returned to his adopted Lancashire to tend his cold and patch up his confidence, Cavendish soared in the finish straight here to score his fourth victory of the race, and arguably the hardest finish of the 14 stages he has won in the Giro d'Italia.