macadam
Example Sentences
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Tho’ her tongue is soft, her heart’s macadam.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
You may note that good intentions are the macadam on the road to hell.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2015
It turns out it’s short for tarmacadam, or tar-penetration macadam.
From Forbes ● Sep. 18, 2014
In all three cases we are offered what evidence of the truth cannot be avoided, and then it is quickly dispatched to oblivion by those laying down the macadam.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2014
She stayed on the macadam, where nothing lived.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing macadam
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