(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!
Turbulent
Definition:
(a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
(a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
(a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(2) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
(3) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
(4) When there is turbulence in the vein lumen the volume of reflux becomes excessive and causes so much adjustment that constrictor tone is abolished.
(5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(6) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
(7) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(8) Doppler and color flow Doppler examinations demonstrated nonpulsatile and turbulent blood flow within the lesion, consistent with a diagnosis of umbilical artery aneurysm.
(9) On the other hand, the device is more sensitive to the turbulences induced by the subject's own breathing.
(10) In 1 patient the clinical diagnosis of arteriovenous fistulae was confirmed by color Doppler which demonstrated a continuous turbulent flow within the femoral vein.
(11) We conclude that flow disturbance or turbulence is a major factor in the development of venous intimal-medial hyperplasia in arteriovenous loop grafts.
(12) "The external environment provides a testing backdrop for these results, and all our industries face some degree of turbulence," Scardino said.
(13) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(14) The Brontes lived in stirring times and in a turbulent region.
(15) With the sample volume in the right ventricle a continuous turbulent flow was observed.
(16) Pathologic regurgitant jets were seen as high-velocity, systolic-retrograde turbulent flow across the prosthesis.
(17) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(18) Clinical applications of this index suggest the possibility of using it further as a detection tool for diseases that generate turbulent noises.
(19) The usual high pressure injections also result in turbulent flow conditions.
(20) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .