(n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(2) The Washington DC transportation department put out a tweet saying that the coming apocalypse would have an impact on road maintenance: "Sorry, we will no longer be able to fill your potholes after Saturday."
(3) They once journeyed six hours out of sprawling Mexico City to deliver an order, using specially designed backpacks that protect the food from the city’s potholed streets.
(4) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(5) On an otherwise ordinary-looking, potholed street in the district of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria , is a stone encrusted gate with personalised initials.
(6) After eight hours of rallying, Kuti was dismissive of accepting anything short of a full governmental U-turn as he settled down to a spliff in his home, a rambling two-storey affair down a potholed road.
(7) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
(8) It’s dawn and it’s sub-zero and it’s a potholed car park in Vilnius, eastern Lithuania, and a hobbit is preparing to tell the world about the Holocaust.
(9) The number 38 bus from Bury had skidded out of control on an icy pothole and crushed her against the wall of the Job Centre.
(10) I damaged my car and tyre after hitting a pothole in the dark.
(11) Weah embraces the familiar imagery of African nobility - the lion - and walks with a clear sense of self-worth through the smoking, potholed streets of Monrovia.
(12) Those potholes, cracks and poor surfaces add up to a $4.3tn investment deficit, according to the ASCE.
(13) Temperatures climb above 40C even before the sun has hit the pitted, potholed surface of the streets through which he pushes his vegetable barrow day after day.
(14) Walking through the dismal Leipzig suburbs feels like being transported back 20 years: there are potholes, weeds growing through the tarmac, dozens of uniform grey apartment blocks.
(15) Only 2% of the country's roads are paved, and these are riddled with potholes.
(16) The road falls and rises to the horizon like a highway across the American midwest, except that the surface is brick-red mud and stones and potholes.
(17) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
(18) We even have an app to report potholes in the city, which in one month registered more than 2,000.
(19) If you can show the council was aware of a dangerous pothole, and yet several weeks later you drove into it and damaged your car, you have a claim.
(20) All very idealistic except for the potholes, lorries and dust!
Sinkhole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The new trend, of course, is for bedsits to be rebranded as studio flats, but there are still these genuine 60s sinkholes dotted about, idly refusing to update, reminding us of a time when to move into this box of self-sufficiency was a truly liberating opportunity, especially for women.
(2) The beautiful ride leaves you happy you didn't fall into any sinkhole, happy the lion no one told you about was busy on a gazelle and you didn't get caught on the way back by a friendly act of spontaneous local taxation on the road back.
(3) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(4) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(5) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(6) The saga has also turned into a domestic political sinkhole.
(7) An intriguing hint is floated in Downloaded that Napster was not only a sinkhole for investors' cash; it only ever generated proper revenue by selling T-shirts.
(8) His verdict on Microsoft's Bing search engine was clearer: it was "a sinkhole", he said.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sinkholes and landslides follow flooding in France and Germany.
(10) Paul Flynn MP tweeted: “Treasury confirm likely Brexit yawning financial sinkhole ahead in which UK economy could fall in a tailspin of slump.” George Osborne, the former chancellor who oversaw the preparation of the April figures, made the case for the UK to maintain the “closest possible economic relationship” with its former EU partners after Brexit.
(11) A 20-yr-old trained sports diver developed severe chest pain shortly after decompressing from a 40 m repetitive freshwater sinkhole dive, and died 6 h later.
(12) A large sinkhole opens up under the tracks at Forest Hill causing cancellation of all trains from London Bridge.
(13) While the last cataclysm dates back to 1961, when 22 people died in the collapse of a whole neighbourhood on Paris’s outskirts, the IGC still makes more than 70 interventions each year on incidents such as collapsing houses, or roads disappearing into sinkholes.
(14) Oerting told The Guardian the entire GOZ's operations infrastructure had been sinkholed, meaning the malware should “not reappear for … considerable time”.
(15) Random events such as breakdowns, flooding and sinkholes have also struck the luckless Southern , and with resources stretched to the limit and staff goodwill broken down, the knock-on effects of such incidents can be more extreme.
(16) Today’s board of reasons for delays are overrunning engineering works, amended timetable, sinkhole, and issues at Lewisham.
(17) Greater Manchester police have been given extra funding from the Home Office to police Sunday’s event, which is expected to bring the city – already gridlocked due to tram works, a sinkhole on the Mancunian Way flyover and many conference-related road closures – to a standstill.
(18) Behind the scenes, the law enforcement groups have been taking over points of control in GOZ's peer-to-peer network: an action known as "sinkholing" in the security world.
(19) Would our Congress be less of a sinkhole and more of a patchwork?
(20) Slow to get us out of the sinkhole of Afghanistan, at least Obama hasn’t involved the country in yet another all‑out war, whatever you may think of inaction in the sinkhole of Syria – and sometimes what’s most important is what a president didn’t do.