Sentence examples for macadam road from inspiring English sources

The principles of the "macadam" road are still used today.

The crown in the middle is like a macadam road.

With the sun coming over your shoulder, take a reading on dry green grass or a dry macadam road.

Only the hairpin curves of macadam road far below reminded us that we weren't looking straight into the Old Testament.

John Loudon McAdam, (born Sept. 21, 1756, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scot. died Nov. 26, 1836, Moffat, Dumfriesshire), Scottish inventor of the macadam road surface.

When I first went to look at the house, trucks had yet to screech and hiss up and down the patched macadam road to build on additions or install central-air systems or roll down ready-made lawns and wood-chipped gardens.

It can be effectively used in the water-bound macadam roads and also in flexible as well as rigid pavements.

"What would we do?" she recalled her husband saying, as they envisioned tract houses and macadam roads replacing their orchards and barns.

Wet leaves were plastered over the driveway and the narrow macadam roads of this development; the neighborhood had been built all at once, twenty years ago, on the land of an unprofitable farm.

Used in London at least by 1640, and about 20 years later in Paris, stagecoaches reached their greatest importance in England and the United States in the 19th century, where the new macadam roads made travel quicker and more comfortable.

They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay bush trails.