Unfortunately the roadbed is very poor, so the new repairs deteriorate rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there a problem bringing a small trailer to MX?] Reference

The roadbed was maybe forty feet above ground level.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

The roadbed strode along on pillars forty feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

Jerome pushes against the referential being of the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

Ripping up the roadbed, leveling it, and replanting the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

He flopped to the sandy roadbed and twisted like an injured snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [DarklyDreamingDexter]

It was unsteady, indicating the uncertain character of the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference

Then the boys went to the roadbed to await the coming of the train.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

The entire roadbed, from beginning to end, was cut in the solid rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference

And we hadn't much to show, except a shift in the roadbed of the SF & D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question of Comfort] Reference

Right over there "-- pointing to the side of the roadbed, in the snow --" a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference

The locomotive sagged to the left as they moved down off the regular roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kahawa]

The proper issue here, of course, is the roadbed, and the error its weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

Once the stones are fitted into place in the roadbed, the base is there forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

"Does that look like business?" he inquired, as they proceeded down the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference

"I felt a few bumps, and I thought we had just struck a poor spot in the roadbed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

On the other side of the track was a deep ravine, dropping abruptly from the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

But he knew just how fast those few remaining miles of open roadbed would be spanned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

It was rutted and treacherous after the rain, and he had to concentrate on the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Went Underground]

They could hear "Red Mike" grunting as he and Gibson struggled up the side of the roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

Some twenty men and boys were working on a roadbed, which had been cut for over two miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference

So Reacher left the phone in the dirt and headed west, forty feet below the raised roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

I left the finished road behind, traveling over the roadbed that was still under construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Like an unfurling green carpet, the massed plants surged forward, enveloping the forsaken roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Long runners from ground-crawling blackcap berries had ventured up and onto the sun-warmed roadbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

As I scrambled up onto the partially completed roadbed, I squinted through the dimness at what I saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

With every step I took on the. roadbed, I felt my awareness of the forest net of life stretch and tear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

For a long, tense moment, the deconstructive operation allows both versions of the roadbed to exist together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

The different layers of rock and gravel that made up the roadbed were inimical to the flow of the forest life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

If he found himself slipping down a slope to the right, he would be off the roadbed; he would veer to the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]

You begin to get a handle on the problem: traffic here has got heavier than the roadbed was designed to handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

You keep close watch on the roadbed, tracking the progress your figurality makes in replacing its inadequate predecessor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

Here the soil had not been packed and the roadbed was not yet leveled It was easier for the trees to hummock their roots across it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]