Sentence examples for dry concrete from inspiring English sources

LITTLE ITALY Garlic; lotion; cypress; rotting lettuce; dry concrete.

Seven thousand tons of dry concrete were soaked during the flood, Mr. Spence said.

They included the Los Angeles County jail; a mostly dry concrete riverbed favored by graffiti taggers; and the sheriff's station used by the National Guard as a staging post during the 1965 Watts riots.

A cement mixer that can pour 10 cubic yards of concrete delivered a well-defined blend of materials to the Flowerhill Drive corner: 10,260 pounds of sand, 20,100 pounds of gravel, 6,060 pounds of cement and 9.4 pounds of an agent that adds air bubbles to help the dry concrete flex with changing temperatures.

When Li's concrete develops hairline cracks, dry concrete is exposed to air; more importantly, to the water in the air.

As the dry concrete material gets hydrated it "grows" new concrete, filling in the super-tight cracks.

A certain Frank Gehry, then almost unknown but now one of the most powerful influencers of the built environment in not just Los Angeles (his current high-profile project involves re-making the city's famously dry, concrete-encased river), but other cities as well.

A study conducted on the workability of fresh geopolymer concretes has revealed that several applications can be targeted, from fluid to dry concretes: reinforced beam or masonry units directly manufactured in industrial precast plant.

Picking them out can be as challenging as plucking feathers from drying concrete.

They gathered at night and, between sips of homemade wine, adorned the gray muck of drying concrete with -- things.

Coated systems limit chloride penetration and can lead to drier concrete (higher resistance).