How To Use Macadamize In A Sentence

  • For decades, the term to macadamize meant to pave a road.
  • In 1916, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee built macadamized roads connecting with the Government Pike, and the Pike was added to the ‘Dixie Highway’ system.
  • Tarmacadam is created by spraying tar along a macadamized road to bind it together further and pressing the surface with a roller to drive the tar deep into the macadam.
  • WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
  • The general plan adopted, and which has been adhered to, was to start at the city limits of the county-seat and to grade and macadamize all of the important public roads from this point out toward the township and the county limits. North Carolina and its Resources.
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  • If such resolution declares only an intention to macadamize, the contract should not be let for both macadamizing and curbing the sidewalk.
  • During her visit, the dedication of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem took place and Miss Lunevsky noted how the streets were being ‘macadamized’ in preparation for the visit of Lord Balfour.
  • On macadamized roads, stage coaches and freight wagons could travel unimpeded by bogs or ruts.
  • By 1862, some parts of St. Charles Road were macadamized and three years later it had been built of rock for its length, leading to the ‘Rock Road’ title it still bears.
  • In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • The ODA Loan from China was used to macadamize the “corruption highway” engineered by trusted VIP i.e. voracious and inept people and supported by the Chinese in exchanged for bigger concession in Spratley Islands. The Money Trail
  • It was purchased by the government and macadamized. Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
  • Broad streets, well graded, were made, with sewers and water-pipes ready laid, and macadamized from his own quarries. Chapter XVII
  • So presently leaving the macadamized road to pursue its course elsewhither, I step off upon the fallow, and plod stumblingly across it. A Changed Man
  • This "macadamized" surface was curved to permit drainage, and extra precautions were taken in localities where spring freshets were likely to cause damage. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond
  • macadamized" with a gray cement which gives very much the effect of asphaltum, separate one demesne from another; and each meadow, lawn, field, and barn-yard has its own proper fence or wall, constructed in the most workmanlike manner. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
  • In 1890, Broadway between Union and Brown Streets was widened and macadamized, and two houses belonging to James Ingalls were moved out of the road.
  • Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • From this time forward every year added a few miles to the macadamized roads of the county.
  • A broad macadamized road, leading south from Williamsport, Maryland, to Lexington, Virginia, was built at an early day to connect the interior of the latter State with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and along this road are situated the principal towns and villages of the Shenandoah Valley, with lateral lines of communication extending to the mountain ranges on the east and west. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • Tarmac was originally marketed as tar-macadam, because it was a macadamized road incorporating a binder of tar.
  • Many have macadamized roads through them, and, indeed, are not gaps, but small valleys through the main chain.
  • A little success in this first enterprise led him to take up contracting as a business, which he followed on various canals and macadamized roads then building in different parts of the State of Ohio, with some good fortune for awhile, but in 1853 what little means he had saved were swallowed up She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • More delightful roads could not be desired; smooth, level, macadamized, devoid of stones and requiring little effort on the pedals.
  • Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
  • Following the route of the current day Country Road 42, this was a macadamized road for the use of which the grumbling traveller had to pay a toll during much of its early history.
  • They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)
  • To repeat: the country is rich, beautiful, and densely populated, subsistence abundant, and the roads -- all macadamized highways; thus the conditions; are altogether different from those existing with us. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • Gap Creek pike, which leaves the Sevierville pike about six miles from Knoxville, is macadamized seven miles.
  • But the trustees wanting to macadamize the miserably pitched street of the town, he bethought him of dust in summer and mud in winter, and drew up a long memorial to the lords of the soil, remonstrating with them on their impolitic conduct; but all in vain. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829
  • WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston, Barbour and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
  • A bill to incorporate a company to repair and macadamize the Beverley and Morgantown road. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
  • The roads running toward the Blue Ridge are nearly all macadamized, and the principal ones lead to the railroad system of eastern Virginia through Snicker's, She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • It is called a macadamized road, and twenty miles of it will make the pelvis of a long-waisted man chafe against his ears. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)

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