| The child dashed across the macadam while the rain cut slantwise through the air. |
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| A pup tent not more than 20 yards from the macadam was pitched by the river. |
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| Scribbled in her untidy scrawl were the words I love Nate Litz written across her macadam driveway in a pale rose-colored chalk. |
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| The city boasts of wide expanses of artistically rendered potholes interrupted in some areas by stretches of macadam. |
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| We will be continuing our programme of macadam overlays for regional and local roads around the county. |
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| The roads shall have sensory speed detectors, traffic lights and tar macadam. |
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| In 1906 Eltham's Bridge Street and High Street became the first tarred macadam roads in New Zealand. |
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| Paving was usually done with asphalt or macadam, though brick paving blocks were also used. |
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| The dust clouds raised by cars were still asphyxiating, but macadam was slowly bringing relief. |
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| The dense bitumen macadam surface, in the absence of any other dressing, tends to polish and became dangerous, particularly after rain. |
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| The result was that in 1906, Eltham became the first town in New Zealand to have a tarred macadam street. |
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| In the absence of surface dressing, dense bitumen macadam tends to polish and become dangerous. |
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| I retraced my route down the gold brick driveway out to the macadam state road. |
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| Once the newly laid lanes are open, the existing road will be shut to traffic and the top layer will be scraped off and fresh wet mix macadam laid. |
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| Some stall floors are macadam and stone dust with bedding over top. |
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| How good a road is going to be depends on how the design is laid out initially vis-a-vis the layer of bitumen, macadam, coat of slurry seal or fog seal. |
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| On our way back, we hit a straightaway of new macadam, near the Army post at Razmak. |
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| Much of the rutting in the epoxy asphalt section occurred in the underlying layer constructed with a 125 pen dense bitumen macadam. |
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| Most materials in existing pavements can be recycled except those of discontinuous grading, e.g. macadam. |
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| The camera drops to within an inch of the macadam so that our brains, too, can get a good rattle, as Jason and Marie's car seems to race straight out of the screen. |
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| 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. |
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| Its fertile soil was seeded in shame with concrete and macadam, and what grew were traffic lanes and cities like Plainfield, hot and steamy in the month of July. |
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| The macadam surface method laid the stone and sand aggregates on the road and then sprayed it with the binding material. |
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| Even in the horse and buggy days a prosperous county was likely to have good stretches of macadam road, while the undeveloped or rundown county next door might have merely cowpaths. |
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| The roads in West Africa at that time were scrappy little affairs, mostly built in the 1970s and repaired since by occasionally plastering uneven lumps of macadam over the gaps that opened up after the rainy season. |
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| On either side of the fresh macadam, the land stretched away into desert. |
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| With the advent of motor vehicles, dust became a serious problem on macadam roads. |
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| The first macadam road built in the United States was constructed between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland and was named at the time Boonsborough Turnpike Road. |
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| While macadam roads have now been resurfaced in most developed countries, some are preserved along stretches of roads such as the United States' National Road. |
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| Telford improved on methods for the building of macadam roads by improving the selection of stone based on thickness, taking into account traffic, alignment and slopes. |
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| This method involved spreading tar on the subgrade, placing a typical macadam layer, and finally sealing the macadam with a mixture of tar and sand. |
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| As well, Mr. MacAdam confirms that he advised the plaintiffs to engage a roofing consultant to give an opinion on the adequacy of the roof flashings and the roofing ballast. |
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| In 1903 Hooley formed Tar Macadam Syndicate Ltd and registered tarmac as a trademark. |
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| The original can be found on display in the Macadam Building in the Students' Union student centre at the Strand Campus. |
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| Pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam in the 1820s, Macadam roads are prone to rutting and generating dust. |
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| The Macadam Building of 1975 houses the Strand Campus Students' Union and is named after King's alumnus Sir Ivison Macadam, first President of the National Union of Students. |
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