Wondering how to use Pothole in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as hole or hollow.
Pothole meaning
- A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
- A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
- A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
Using Pothole
- The main meaning on this page is: A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic. | A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream. | A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
- Useful related words include: chuckhole, hole, hollow.
- In the example corpus, pothole often appears in combinations such as: the pothole, hit pothole, of pothole.
Context around Pothole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pothole
- In this selection, "pothole" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, giant, 324, major, capital, crews and complaints stand out and add context to how "pothole" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a giant pothole in los and a pandemic pothole and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pothole" sits close to words such as abundantly, activates and adr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pothole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Arnold Schwarzenegger fixes a giant pothole in Los Angeles. (9 words)
Firstly, the Chancellor announced a multi-million-pound package for pothole repairs. (12 words)
But it turns out it wasn’t even a pothole, but a trench. (13 words)
Claiming for pothole damage to vehicles in Gloucestershire is “like finding a needle in a haystack” as it was revealed the state of the roads was the subject of hundreds of freedom of information requests last year. (37 words)
But Mark Morrell, perhaps better known as Brackley campaigner Mr Pothole, said current funding across the country is “like peeing in the sea” and that extra money is desperately needed to halt the decline. (34 words)
A total of 324 pothole reports have been made to the council so far in May and around 700 square metres of highways defects were repaired in April, with hundreds more planned. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Barnet is the pothole capital of London, averaging to one pothole for every 86 resident.
On Tuesday, DPW had seven of the department’s 20 pothole crews responding to pothole complaints.
Along Central Avenue, workers filled in a pothole that blew out tires on multiple vehicles.
Arnold Schwarzenegger fixes a giant pothole in Los Angeles.
A total of 324 pothole reports have been made to the council so far in May and around 700 square metres of highways defects were repaired in April, with hundreds more planned.
But it turns out it wasn’t even a pothole, but a trench.
But Mark Morrell, perhaps better known as Brackley campaigner Mr Pothole, said current funding across the country is “like peeing in the sea” and that extra money is desperately needed to halt the decline.
Claiming for pothole damage to vehicles in Gloucestershire is “like finding a needle in a haystack” as it was revealed the state of the roads was the subject of hundreds of freedom of information requests last year.
Drivers’ anger at the condition of local roads has reached an eight-year high, with a third of drivers swerving to avoid a pothole, a new survey suggests.
Firstly, the Chancellor announced a multi-million-pound package for pothole repairs.
From pothole depth to overall smoothness, the first survey since 2016 aims to assess the quality of every street so the city can better repair them.
He described Baillieston as “a disaster zone” and said one major pothole has yet to be repaired.
He said: 'The first thing I noticed was a man warning us there was a pothole.
If the pothole is on a motorway or main trunk road, the chances are it is a National Highways problem.
If you establish that a pothole has damaged your car, it might be possible to make a compensation claim.
Investigations showed Mr Collings had discussed the fraudulent claim with friends and analysis found the damage could not have been caused by a pothole as claimed.
It is a fixed cost for filling up a pothole of a certain size, both material wise and labor/time.
MarketWatch First Take: Cisco made it through a pandemic pothole, and the stock is driving highermarketwatch.
Mr Briggs returned to the issue and called for the to set up a pothole fund.
Mr Faulkner said a direct comparison between the skid steer loader currently in use and the Pothole Pro suggested the proposed new machine may not be cheaper, or more efficient.
Common combinations with pothole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pothole 12×
- hit pothole 8×
- of pothole 7×
- pothole on 7×
- pothole in 5×
- pothole and 5×
- for pothole 4×
- pothole repairs 4×
- one pothole 3×
- in pothole 3×