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UK
/tˈɑːmæk/
]
[ US /ˈtɑɹˌmæk/ ]
[ US /ˈtɑɹˌmæk/ ]
NOUN
- a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving
- a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar
VERB
-
surface with macadam
macadam the road
How To Use tarmac In A Sentence
- Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
- Five minutes down the tarmac and we take an open and contouring track south-east.
- The new gravel road has been built parallel to the old tarmac Gun Park Road
- As well as handling helicopter movements, they temporarily provided control services for the military tarmac to try to get as many aircraft into the small airfield as possible.
- He felt one wheel plop off the sharp edge of tarmac. Bomber
- Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
- If the wine smelt of soot, hot tarmac or burnt rubber, you knew it was a South African.
- Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
- There's a bit of a welcoming committee on the tarmac so let's go over and see who's here.
- The first significant expense, though, was tarmacking the unmade road from the entrance to their land to the farm buildings. Times, Sunday Times
