Sentence examples for pothole from inspiring English sources

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pothole

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A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.

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If you could get down in one piece without hitting a pothole or skidding on the gravel and then manage to navigate the left-hand bend at the bottom you were a legend.

"If China hits a pothole, we're all going to be paying a huge price," says Jones.

If you spot a pothole or a pile of rubbish in Bangalore, you can alert city officials by uploading a geo-tagged photograph.

The city is so poor, and its government so corrupt, that even the man who fills in the same pothole each day on Lukusa Avenue, in exchange for tips from motorists, is regularly shaken down for bribes by the police.

One of the more bizarre, if less conspiratorial, theories is that he bore an obsessional grudge against the mayor because the city refused to compensate him for damage caused to his car by a pothole.

They may point to the future.In this section Just better than nothing The last of the silver Giddy nags The pothole poll School's not out Supermarket sweep Bruising Estate of mind On the march with Red Ed Reprints Related topics George Osborne Labour Party (Britain) Birmingham, EnglandCouncils and non-profit housing associations accommodate 17% of Britons.

A year on, Britain's legal market is beginning to churn.In this section Just better than nothing The last of the silver Giddy nags The pothole poll School's not out Supermarket sweep Bruising Estate of mind On the march with Red Ed ReprintsSo far the Solicitors Regulation Authority has licensed 138 alternative business structures.

Ms Western claims Labour will invest £1m ($1.5m) in Derbyshire's roads and pavements.The pothole talk also hints at the growing localism of British politics.

He yanks the steering wheel left to avoid another pothole, generating a loud groaning sound from the vehicle's knackered suspension.On a clear day in eastern Honiara, you can gaze out across the sea and just pick out the dark mountains of Malaita on the horizon.

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He played a game of "Spot the Africa", contrasting a picture of a gleaming new central African superhighway with a pothole-filled picture of New York's FDR drive he took from his cab ride into Manhattan.

The $2bn expressway, which opened in 2012 and cut the driving time from Delhi to Agra by up to four hours, appeared as an alluring mirage: three pothole-free lanes in either direction, clearly marked and stretching off into the hazy distance.

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