How to Use roadbed in a Sentence

roadbed

noun
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  • The open curved arches beneath the roadbed soar above the wild creek.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The roadbed beneath much of the track needs to be chipped out and replaced with fresh concrete and new drains.
    — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The roadbed may be washed out under the water, and you could be stranded or trapped.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • For nearly four miles out of Low Gap, the trail followed an old roadbed ruffed with ferns.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The stretch of highway is on a hillside, and White said the deluge blew out a pipe that ran under the roadbed.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • It was rerouted to 143rd Street and the old roadbed was blocked off, albeit poorly.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • At some point, the man fell onto the roadbed where the tracks are as a train approached, according to police.
    — Kiely Westhoff and Jason Hanna, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The roadbed swings upward and is balanced by a counterweight.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
  • While driving by on Tuesday, cleveland.com could see that nearly all the roadbed is complete, and most is paved.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The man was able to climb onto the platform from the roadbed and did not need medical assistance.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Bullet holes have been plastered over, and roadbeds torn by tank treads repaired.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Muddy water now courses through where the roadbed had been only a week ago.
    — Amy Beth Hanson, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • There would have been crops here then, Brian said, and a low roadbed that would have afforded some cover for Federal troops.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
  • This led me to focus on an area where a roadbed intersected a canal—a highway that also looked to have a little more water depth.
    — Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In terms of people being able to go outside in their neighborhood and feel comfortable, feel safe in the roadbed, the slow streets are serving their purpose.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
  • Secretary Noah Valenstein said once the roadbed is gone, more than 200 billion gallons of water will be able to move south from Lake Okeechobee.
    — John Haughey, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2021
  • In the middle of the night, metal rods would periodically poke up through the roadbed from somewhere below.
    — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Officers also found a ladder on the elevated roadbed of the railway, not far from the museum.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Officers also found a ladder on the elevated roadbed of the railway, not far from the museum.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Outlook: Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reports: Wipers and white bass good late on jigging spoons and crankbaits off windy, rocky points or over roadbeds; crappies fair on jigs off the marina docks; all other species slow.
    — Bruce Janssen, kansascity, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Outlook: Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reports: Catfish fair on dip baits, liver and nightcrawlers over bean holes; wipers and white bass good on jigging spoons and crankbaits off windy, rocky points or over roadbeds; all other species slow.
    — Bruce Janssen, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Officers searching the crime scene found a ladder on the elevated railway’s roadbed, which is near the museum’s back wall.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Outlook: Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reports: White bass fair late on jigging spoons and crankbaits off windy, rocky points or over roadbeds; crappies fair (but small) on jigs off the marina docks; all other species slow.
    — Bruce Janssen, kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The daytime melting and freezing nights are bursting open potholes in asphalt when water seeps into the roadbed only to freeze later.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • This could result in the juveniles being too tired to think up mischief roadbed for road construction and the desire to never get stuck in juvenile court again.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The state beefed up construction plans already underway so the highway could survive future flooding and to fight the thawing of permafrost beneath the roadbed.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The state board identified causes like broken tracks, motors that dropped out of trains, concrete crumbling into the roadbed and misaligned switches.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • Stopping at the three major bridges over the Salinas River, McShane reported a torrent of mud and debris racing toward the ocean with room to spare before cresting the roadbed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • On the region’s main highway back to Yellowknife, entire guardrails have sunk into the roadbed, and a ribbon of asphalt that was once entirely flat now swells and dips because of thawing permafrost.
    — Dan Levin, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Pictures from The Associated Press and others showed that part of the roadbed had fallen away, with warped metal girders hanging down toward the water.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 17 July 2023

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