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
At their request an aircraft was drawn up ready for takeoff on the tarmac at Munich airport. Times, Sunday Times
The Montreal track can almost seem like a street circuit at times with barriers and walls close to the tarmac. The Sun
Go through this and a wide tarmac lane is now followed straight ahead for the next half a mile or so all the way back to Disley.
Obtaining clearance from the local air traffic control, she eased off the tarmac into the air.
There's a bit of a welcoming committee on the tarmac so let's go over and see who's here.
The pegs dug into the tarmac and the back end gently bounced. The Sun
The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra.
Join a short curve of tarmac and leave on grassy path to right. Times, Sunday Times
What is especially odd with cab journeys at the moment though is that most of them take place on a completely empty, beautifully tarmacked road.
This is ballet on tarmac and the high speeds involved make this an awesome spectacle.
It was not long ago that, at enormous expense, the pavement was relaid and now we have Tarmac extensions!
A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe.
They saw each other and the Russian nodded and turned his grey back, which was wide enough to be tarmacked rather than clothed. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
As Parretti walked across the tarmac, fraud officers closed in.
The surface of the road is made up of a surface layer of tarmac, approximately 4 to 6 inches thick followed by a concrete layer of approximately 12 or 13 inches.
Tarmac was originally marketed as tar-macadam, because it was a macadamized road incorporating a binder of tar.
The technology reads the bag's "identity" as it moves from luggage belts to carts to airport tarmacs. The Trump Card at Check-In
The interpreter talks about the plane landing on the hot tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
This environment, when coupled with the new DOT tarmac delay rule ... could have unintended consequences and result in harming consumers with more delays and cancellations rather than protecting their interests. DOT rejects airline requests for exemptions from new tarmac time limit
We bounced off the jagged edge of the tarmac and hurtled through dust. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
He jogged on to the tarmac and into the spinning propeller of the plane. Times, Sunday Times
My first exit was a rather undignified tumble onto the tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
Temperatures were more than 50C - the combination of engine exhaust, direct sunlight and radiated heat from the tarmac.
Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
Outside, double gates monitor admission to the long front garden, which has a side lawn and provides extensive off-street parking along its tarmacadam driveway.
In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac.
It skips off ruts in the road and can push wide in corners, leading to one memorable moment on broken, damp tarmac, but it's all part of the fun.
The front garden has shrubbery and a tarmacadam driveway with parking for up to three cars.
Or tarmacking over your street frontage: it does save all that gardening. Times, Sunday Times
Outdoors there is a double garage and other out offices and the property also has a tarmacadam yard.
Join a short curve of tarmac and leave on grassy path to right. Times, Sunday Times
During 2004 the committee, in association with Ballina Town Council, prepared and re-kerbed the majority of the wider avenues for resurfacing with tarmacadam.
All the rest will hit the tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
Because she could not pick up the motorbike after a gravel rasher, and on bends she just did not have the weight to keep the bloody wheels on the tarmac. Motorcycle Daydream « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Fully equipped with a week's worth of rations, our progress from this city of contradictions leaves behind the tarmac road for rough tracks of sand and stone.
Normally, walking along tarmac is a piece of cake after the rocky excursion along a ridge.
Passengers trapped on the tarmac is a suitable symbol for the present plight of air travelers and airlines. Christine Negroni: Tarmac Rules Trap Passengers and Airlines on a Flight to Nowhere
A large passenger jet was parked on the tarmac, and a disordered crowd was heading toward it in sweaty haste. Excerpt: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
With its intelligent four - wheel drive , it has the versatility required for every type of tarmac - road terrain.
He said: ‘As the plane taxied along the remotest part of the runway, the six suitcases were ejected from the hatch in the belly of the aeroplane on to the tarmac.’
Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
The city passed a resolution in 1987 to name a street in a new development in Rivière-des-Prairies after L' Ouverture, but the steamrollers never touched the tarmac.
Horsetails or equisetum can be your nightmare if you have recently laid tarmacadam.
The plane screeched to a halt on the tarmac, bouncing them slightly in the red webbing of the cargo seats. MINUTES TO BURN
I - one of the most fascinating aspects of your book is - because it interests me so personally, is concrete and the development of roads in the country, and how we got the word tarmac and concrete and things like that. NPR Topics: News
Sitting in the carpark, watching the sheets of rain blasting across the tarmac, there really wasn't much else to do but go home.
The Tarmac area provides floodlit all weather courts for netball, basketball, hockey, soccer and other sports.
The bomb did not explode but as it hit the tarmac the ground shook. Bomber
Unable to control his bike, he landed on the tarmac like a sack of spuds.
They said that crew members told them the idea was to hit the tarmac with the gear on the left side to jolt the right gear loose.
Congo has less than 300 miles of tarmac roads outside its main cities. Times, Sunday Times
Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it.
Through a stone entrance a tarmac driveway leads to the house which is surrounded by landscaped gardens and lawns.
Teddy stood on the tarmac, balancing on his cane, the rain dripping from the broad flat brim of his hat. THE SERPENT'S MARK
Residents in Ballards Walk and Great Knightleys, Laindon, claimed soft tarmac put down between the bins and the roadway two weeks ago made it difficult for refuse collectors to take away stinking refuse.
The only other plane on the tarmac was a big DC-9 passenger jet emblazoned with the Gore-Lieberman campaign logo. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
Tarmac lane with short steep section leads on to rough unmade road.
The department's actions come as Congress weighs passengers 'rights legislation that would place a three-hour cap on how long airlines can keep passengers waiting on tarmacs before they allow them to deplane or return to a gate. Three airlines fined in Minnesota tarmac stranding
Congo has less than 300 miles of tarmac roads outside its main cities. Times, Sunday Times
I just have this image in my head of a quiet suburban street being overrun by Aliens loping on all fours over the tarmac.
For a while...' Beyond the cattle-grid, the road was tarmac with grass on either side, sheep roaming freely. CHAMELEON
The road was being resurfaced and glistened with fudge-soft tarmac.
Abdullah, his Ugandan freight-agent, had been waiting on the broiling tarmac when he climbed down from the Canadair. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
But race organisers re-laid the track saturdaynight and did an excellent job with preserving the tarmac for the race distance. Poland's Rising F1 Star Makes History in Montreal
After a few days on the tarmac it turned tail for Washington.
The problem is when you're on track with road tyres, there isn't enough rubber making contact with the tarmac, which causes the tyres to twist and contort, meaning substantially less grip after only a few laps. Car Advice | News | Reviews
It has a huge tarmac car park and a hotel on site. Times, Sunday Times
The guideway is 75 feet high in some areas and averages 50 feet above the tarmac.
But my days of getting off the plane to the smell of hot, foreign tarmac are over. Times, Sunday Times
Later, after touching down on the scabby tarmac, I skated through Customs in Lima.
Join a short curve of tarmac and leave on grassy path to right. Times, Sunday Times
The old estate looked quite ready to swap tarmac for mud; this one has a distinctly more suburban air.
I was stuck on the tarmac at Miami airport for three hours. Times, Sunday Times
When we turn on the news and see a bunch of new-age hippies tied to trees trying to stop the never-ending progress of tarmacadam through our dwindling green and cultural areas we all too often take no notice.
The village centre is once again the scene of chaos as the roads are being dug up, filled in and tarmaced over.
The district has 1,050km of roads, of which 300km are tarmac and 750km are murram. AllAfrica News: Latest
My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird.
Sets of parallel lines painted on the tarmac led him to the passport control kiosks and the customs sheds beyond.
For those unfamiliar with the discipline, rallycross is similar to rally racing, only the cars are typically 50 percent more powerful (600 horsepower as opposed to 400 hp) and the quick stages consist of dirt, jumps and tarmac. Autoblog
The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension.
These strips of tarmacadam enjoy annual treatment of fresh stone chippings to lace together part of a road network that never should be striped, reflectorised, mapped or funded.
He felt one wheel plop off the sharp edge of tarmac. Bomber
An engine rumbled behind him then the sound of old tyres screeching against the tarmac.
Fender-benders between planes moving around on tarmacs happen occasionally. Super Jumbo Jet Clips Plane at JFK
You won't end up wondering what it must have been like 100 years ago because, apart from tarmac road and the other tourists, it's still exactly like it was.
Meanwhile, work has yet to start on the Calderdale side of the border, where a landslide above the road has buckled the tarmac and pushed over fence posts.
In addition there is a toolshed, glasshouse, a tarmac tennis court and a walled garden.
We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
The district takes care of the tarmac roads while the divisions are responsible for the murram ones. AllAfrica News: Latest
But my days of getting off the plane to the smell of hot, foreign tarmac are over. Times, Sunday Times
I arrived in Switzerland with a bunch of flowers that nearly blew away as a gust of snow blasted down the airport tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
The plane had to wait half an hour on the tarmac because of fog.
We came in sideways, touched wheels to tarmac, then flew round again. Times, Sunday Times
If you're camping on tarmac, it helps to have a tent that will stay up with a minimum number of pegs
They've been lobbying Congress for years to crack down on the airlines, to stop what some call tarmac hostage-taking, to punish airlines that punish passengers with interminable delays on the tarmac. Chicagotribune.com -
It was a bad month for travelers caught in tarmac delays. Airline on-time performance falls, tarmac delays up in June
They staggered in a zigzag across the tarmac.
He stopped work and crouched low on the tarmac. Bomber
When he hit the tarmac he ran to his car and drove home. The Sun
How on earth do they do it, three or four abreast and all heading for the same small square of Tarmac? The Sun
After an hour the tarmac runs out. Times, Sunday Times
It also has a large tarmac sports area, for tennis, basketball and five-a-side soccer.
The pilot slammed on the brakes and came to a halt two thirds of the way down the runway, turned full circle and headed towards a crossroads in the tarmac.
Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses.
The club is to tarmac an area at the front of the pitch, to turn it into a car park.
He dropped his box of comics at his feet and the contents spilled out onto the concrete tarmac.
They sat on the tarmac for six hours before being told they would not be flying. Times, Sunday Times
As the club entered the 1990s tarmacadam courts were laid and flood lighting was erected on two courts in 1995.
We came in sideways, touched wheels to tarmac, then flew round again. Times, Sunday Times
On a stretch of smooth, open tarmac you'll find the tweaked steering a joy. Times, Sunday Times
You need to cut back on your training, avoid hills and try and run on softer surfaces than tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
Racing onto tarmac, a Ford RS200 classic rallycross car races into view and goes head-to-head with Block and a Mitsubishi Evo X in rallycross spec in the hills above Monaco. Game Info Wire
I'm sure that many people, the local schools' caretakers in particular, will join me in asking why we can't have a weatherproof, clean tarmac path to enjoy.
They are characterised by their wide, fast and smooth nature, with sections of Tarmac measure.
They spend lots of time chewing gum, sticking it on to bits of tarmac and then trying to get it off. Times, Sunday Times
The main idea now is to develop an engine which is able to take the aircraft from the tarmac to mach 6+ using basically one engine which combines a turbojet, ramjet, and last but not least a scramjet. X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch
She rushed across the last stretch of tarmacadam to the van and pounded on the door with the heel of the bottle. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
My old office is in a huge corporate park right across the street from Los Angeles International Airport; we could see the planes hit the tarmac from the 12th floor of the building. Year One
And as the empty tarmac streets melt in the midday sun, it appears only the flies are buzzing.
The Montreal track can almost seem like a street circuit at times with barriers and walls close to the tarmac. The Sun
Waiting on the tarmac was a Gulfstream III (G3) executive jet (tail number N366JA). Obama Lands In Afghanistan - Swampland - TIME.com
Oaks, sycamores and beeches dotted well-tended lawns bordered by tarmacked paths and signposted at every junction.
It has a huge tarmac car park and a hotel on site. Times, Sunday Times
When we hit tarmac again it felt odd to be pedalling along smooth cycle paths. Times, Sunday Times
The contractor, Tarmac Ltd National Contracting, will plane off the existing surface and lay a new Tarmac surface.
However, whereas most cars feel light and unstable at high speeds, this one stays glued to the tarmac, thanks to its clever underbody diffusers, which sucks the car down.
Tarmac insists the quarry will be hidden from view by a screen of more than 20,000 trees and a mile and a half of hedgerow.
The passenger were shepherd across the tarmac to the airliner.
At their request an aircraft was drawn up ready for takeoff on the tarmac at Munich airport. Times, Sunday Times
We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass.
They dumped it at the tarmac road, where they had cars waiting. Times, Sunday Times
Two French soldiers met them on the tarmac, their uniforms adorned with UN trimmings. MINUTES TO BURN
Work will include the laying of concrete and tarmacadam in a parking area for traps and ponies that take thousands of visitors through the spectacular, seven-mile gap.
The wave would destroy some tarmacs but the wave would preserve the vast majority - including fuel supplies - due to lack of use. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
Flat, on tarmac all the way — easy-peasy pedalling. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily, the drive was tarmacked, so there was no chance of anyone in the house hearing me crunch gravel underfoot. KICK BACK
John said 300 000 Euro has been set aside for overlaying tarmacadam from Davey's Corner right through the village of Carracastle to the county boundary.
A tarmac path, lightly gravelled, carpeted with late and fading blossom frames the foreground.
In the urban setting, where most of us live the most heartening thing I keep coming across is tarmac, and kids playing on it.
Nearing the border, they left the tarmac of the main road and began to bounce across the rutted sand, following in the tracks of the vehicles which had already passed the same way.
On an island without cars, street lights or tarmac roads such proposals were regarded as alarmingly modern. Times, Sunday Times
However, construction of the observation tower would cover most of this land in Tarmac and other impermeable surfaces, which would increase surface run-off, because less water can soak into the ground.
The pegs dug into the tarmac and the back end gently bounced. The Sun
Though the tarmac takes a smooth U-turn on to the next straight, rider and machine will not describe such a graceful arc.
The final element that contributes to improved handling and grip is the downforce - using the underbody of the vehicle to facilitate airflow and ‘stick’ the car to the tarmac.
These give excellent levels of grip on tarmac and in mud, but this is at the cost of some tyre rumble and a slight loss of precision.
There were superlight wheels and tyres that promised to roll effortlessly along mile upon mile of tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs.
Immediately below the bridge, a path runs leftwards, uphill to a tarmac road where a signpost to Birnam Hill points to the left.
A welcome has been recorded at the completion of the road surface on the Mountain Road after workmen applied the tarmacadam surface on that roadway last week.
Getting out onto boiling hot tarmac somewhere in just your socks would, I imagine, not be the best start to a holiday.
Long gone are the days when this flag carrier was considered so sacrosanct its planes were blessed by priests on the tarmac before departure.
As he steps barefoot on to the tarmac, he is joined by half-clad priests wearing only saffron dhotis. Times, Sunday Times
Music and dance on the tarmac, bouncing castle and other fun activities and lots of fun.
Sometimes if we're really worried about the wrath of the travel gods (like the one time we landed in Gatwick and the fire trucks came out on to the tarmack to greet us because the landing gear light was stuck in the "not deployed" mode. Day in the Life of an Idiot
Many bridleways were closed following the outbreak of the disease, and riders had to exercise their horses on private land or hack out on tarmac roads.
It was travelling at more than 140 mph as it arrowed along the 1.9 miles of tarmac at Elvington Airfield, near York.
If roads get too hot, the anti-skid surface of stone chippings can sink into the the melted tarmac.
It was a dusty and incredibly bumpy journey to Kabul, along roads whose tarmac had been destroyed by tank treads and missile attacks.
Our course was predominately tarmac with one long loose-gravel section; in all, less than a mile. Times, Sunday Times
The tarmac gang have just been back and tarmacked all 4 square feet of it.
The opinion that these should not have been used on the street was strengthened when a large portion of the upper Main Street was dug up once again, the cobblelocking removed and replaced by tarmacadam.
Britain used to have a healthy stable of big concrete, aggregate and cement groups, from Blue Circle to Tarmac and RMC.
Shattered glass and a detached hubcap, together with anonymous pieces of plastic and chrome, littered the verge and tarmac. THE LAST RAVEN
Back for lunch, cleaned the house, concreted the inspection hole some more - played with a blowlamp and some spare tarmac - apparently, you can indeed make it more malleable with a flame, and it resists burning nicely. Planet SUSE
Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
Standing on the tarmac were two American planes.
Little tarmac roads wound between the trees and little front and rear gardens were packed with small bushes that gave each property a feeling of seclusion.
A healthy baby boy was delivered in the back of the helicopter on the tarmac at the Comoro Airfield.
He stopped work and crouched low on the tarmac. Bomber
Though the tarmac takes a smooth U-turn on to the next straight, rider and machine will not describe such a graceful arc.
It is nowhere near as big and threatening as top-end SUVs and, thanks to suspension tuned for tarmac rather than mud, rides quite well on the road.
Top aides to President George Bush arranged a statement on the airport tarmac in Toledo, Ohio.
After a last stream - beehives here - we're on a dead-end road with silverweed growing down the middle of the Tarmac.
They also unearthed old tramlines beneath the layers of tarmac which had to be dug up.
He was not an expert and was not qualified to say whether the laying of hoggin as opposed to tarmac made this community garden dangerous.
When he hit the tarmac he ran to his car and drove home. The Sun
Priscilla, my mom, and I sat silently in our own little world as we waited on the tarmac for the plane to debark. Welcome to My World
We start with a gated road tarmac warm up to find a steep climb up the west flank of the valley.
A tarmac driveway allows for off-street parking and there is also a detached garage.
The unmaintained tarmac turns into gravel and dirt, while the sparse houses have become more scattered.
We follow in cautious steps, relying on torches and flames from roadside vendors to avoid potholes in the Tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
We sat on the tarmac for two hours just looking at each other. The Sun
I arrived in Switzerland with a bunch of flowers that nearly blew away as a gust of snow blasted down the airport tarmac. Times, Sunday Times
The plane was sitting on the tarmac, yards away, the livery's colours distorted by the bright sunshine, but the name legible on the fuselage: Freebird. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Once the aircraft was on auto pilot, the captain, who had greeted me with a huge smile on the tarmac, came out of his cabin and chatted with the passengers.
The northern playground is in the process of being transformed into a communal garden as earth and foliage replace characterless tarmac.
Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up.
You're going to need a paved surface, concrete blocks, Tarmac even, so the delivery vehicles can get to the shops by the river.

How To Use Tarmac In A Sentence

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