Sentence examples for tarmac over from inspiring English sources

We have assumed that we can build a house on it, dig it up, put tarmac over it; that's OK because it's there for us.

"This place has had its heart ripped out," says Robert Kennedy, a play worker, as he shovels woodchips around an outdoor play area, across the road from where steamrollers press fresh tarmac over the site of the old community centre.

These feckless humans are an inconvenient and minor element of the regeneration process, like those tedious newts that have to be seen to be transported to other waterlogged areas when begrudging builders tarmac over an ancient wetland.

Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers, if only for a few hours.

Obama's trip begins with an awkward squabble between Chinese and U.S. officials on the airport tarmac over which set of stairs the president and his delegation would use to disembark from Air Force One.

With its touts and banners announcing winners of awards you've never heard of, its frequently one-pot-fits-all cookery and its tarmacked-over cobbles, that once-exciting destination for cheap and cheerful curry seems to have lost its soul.

"It was an old railway line they'd tarmacked over that went to the other side of Edinburgh.

Offsetting projects themselves must be monitored to prevent them being tarmacked over for, say, a carpark a few years later.

Dreadful!" Third, and not unconnectedly, "front gardens are tarmacked over, so we get flooding problems and a reduction of wildlife habitats".

Sure, there are missteps: the dull Ice Caves map is just that – a series of frozen tunnels that quickly turn into mass grenade ambushes; the Sulphur Fields of Sullust provide a colourless, spiny hellscape full of troughs and traps – like someone's tarmacked over a crazy golf course.

"We've got cobbled areas on both sides and they're just tarmacking over the cobbles.