How do you use Potholed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pocked or pockmarked, plus the exact meaning.
Potholed meaning
Having potholes in its surface
Synonyms of Potholed
Using Potholed
- The main meaning on this page is: Having potholes in its surface
- Useful related words include: pocked, pockmarked, rough, unsmooth.
- In the example corpus, potholed often appears in combinations such as: potholed streets, potholed street, and potholed.
Context around Potholed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Potholed
- In this selection, "potholed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, although, flooding, severely, streets, street and roads stand out and add context to how "potholed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a potholed street in and and flooding potholed streets church. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "potholed" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with potholed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Motorists had a tough time negotiating the potholed roads. (9 words)
But London’s gridlocked and potholed streets are in desperate need of investment. (13 words)
They had been positioned on a potholed street, apparently main on to a ditch. (14 words)
Maybe our goals in life are different, just maybe, maybe our individual purposes in life are different too, maybe these folks get a kick from driving down a potholed road and seeing a sea of poverty whilst in these million dollar cars. (42 words)
The taste for luxury cars among the very wealthy has led to a new genre of social media posts featuring the vehicles driven by MPs, well-connected businessmen and top officials on Harare’s potholed streets. (36 words)
The road, although potholed in places, was fine until we reached the hamlet of Tíjola, a strung-out collection of whitewashed houses almost at river level, where it narrowed considerably. (30 words)
Example sentences (12)
A potholed street in Sheffield has not been resurfaced as ‘punishment’ for a tree protest six years ago, residents claim.
Motorists had a tough time negotiating the potholed roads.
They had been positioned on a potholed street, apparently main on to a ditch.
Beauregard’s story begins with a high-stakes road race, on a potholed byway, accompanied by a chorus of crickets and whippoorwills.
His career is potholed with scandals, betrayals and mendacities that would have undone many another politician, but he somehow always bounced back.
Maybe our goals in life are different, just maybe, maybe our individual purposes in life are different too, maybe these folks get a kick from driving down a potholed road and seeing a sea of poverty whilst in these million dollar cars.
But London’s gridlocked and potholed streets are in desperate need of investment.
The road, although potholed in places, was fine until we reached the hamlet of Tíjola, a strung-out collection of whitewashed houses almost at river level, where it narrowed considerably.
The taste for luxury cars among the very wealthy has led to a new genre of social media posts featuring the vehicles driven by MPs, well-connected businessmen and top officials on Harare’s potholed streets.
But there are no plans for tanks to roll down Pennsylvania Avenue because metal tracks could damage Washington’s already potholed-ridden streets.
Once a dirty street with garbage and flooding potholed streets, Church Street is getting transformed into a pedestrian’s dream-street.
While a reasonable road infrastructure has existed within Angola, time and the war have taken their toll on the road surfaces, leaving many severely potholed, littered with broken asphalt.
Common combinations with potholed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- potholed streets 4×
- potholed street 2×
- and potholed 2×
- on potholed 2×