How to Use pothole in a Sentence

pothole

noun
Definition of potholenext
Synonyms for potholenext
  • The car has springs, to isolate your tush from the bumps and potholes on the road.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • But, his early cruise hit a pothole with one out in the fourth inning.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Some potholes were there for so long and were so large that the family would name them.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Always sneak up on a pothole from the upwind side—that is, with the wind behind you.
    — Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Check out which states had the most and least pothole complaints below.
    — al, 18 Feb. 2022
  • She was thrown from a vehicle that hit a large pothole, and her head was run over.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The worker is a neighbor who was repairing a pothole in the road.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 26 July 2021
  • Set up your cones and clean out the pothole, removing any loose chunks of pavement and dirt.
    — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Outside, potholes pocked the parking lot and deep splits formed in warped sidewalks.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Four men who were filling potholes on the bridge at the time of its collapse fell into the water, and are presumed dead.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Per The Maine Farmers' Almanac, the moon is also known as the crow, crust, sap, sugar, chase, pothole, lenten or death moon.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There are a few different ways to report potholes in the local area.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The road to more reasonable prices for new and used cars remains littered with potholes.
    — Christopher Hickey, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • If a pothole appears, there isn’t really room to swerve around it.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The small pothole had been circled by cattails and mallards would pour into it at last light.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
  • Once known for its poor pavement and patchy potholes, the route now cuts through the jagged naturescape with a ribbon of pristine pavement.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Ratz also cited the condition of the streets and potholes as issues that need to be improved.
    — Indystar Staff, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • Yes, company founders face a lot of struggles on their path and get stuck in unforeseen potholes along the way.
    — Neeraj Srivastava, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Hearing the sound feels like the aural equivalent of driving over a pothole.
    — Carolina Abbott Galvão, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Baseball is too complex, too fickle and too long a trek, fraught with potholes and blind corners.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • If there is a pothole that hasn’t been fixed in three months, then that’s useful information.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the roads were cut by traffickers and are bumpy paths with large potholes, at times slowing police SUVs to 10 mph.
    — USA Today, 18 June 2023
  • Bolden said this is the first year Cincinnati has had more than 2,000 pothole repair requests.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The Mazi Smith gun charge is a sudden pothole in Michigan football’s ride to perfection.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • October has some potholes, as two of the month’s three games are outside of Corvallis.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • In some other year, the city council might have spent most of its time talking about potholes or police budgets.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 June 2023
  • Crew members are often assigned to drive around to remove snow and debris from roads, fill potholes and clear storm drains.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The local equivalent: a novice rider hitting a pothole and cartwheeling over the bars.
    — Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • Centuries have passed — and Phoenix may be a mere hour to the south — but the last seven-miles of the journey to Castle Hot Springs remains unpaved and riddled with potholes.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2023
  • Others, he was told, have speculated that the driver was trying to avoid a pothole or even a deer.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 21 June 2022

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