The local authorities needed to macadamize the path in preparation for the coming rainy days. From LearnThat.org.
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Trail] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829] Reference
Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
A bill to incorporate a company to repair and macadamize the Beverley and Morgantown road. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.] Reference
Now Portland ought to lay itself out a little and macadamize all its streets just like this. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
Several correspondents sent me what they believed to be such verbs; however, with one exception, they remembered words having suffixes (like macadamize). From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference
The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference
In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
30. macadamize. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
macadamize a road. From Wordnik.com. [1881 Household Cyclopedia] Reference
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