tarmac

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noun

tar·mac ˈtär-ˌmak

: a tarmacadam road, apron, or runway

Tarmac

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Example Sentences

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Noun

There’s no plane and no tarmac. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022 Back in 2013 he was fired five games into his fourth season at USC, unceremoniously dumped on an airport tarmac after accruing a 28-15 record with the Trojans, including just a 10-8 mark in his final two seasons. —

Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2022 The audio was captured by television cameras as the Democratic Senate leader greeted Biden at a tarmac in Syracuse, N.Y., where Biden later gave remarks touting Micron Technology's plans for a $100 billion semiconductor plant. —

Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022 American was also fined $1 million in March 2019 for 13 long tarmac delays between December 2015 and January 2017. —

Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2022 The 9-hectare sacred grove—about the size of nine soccer fields—has a barbed wire fence around it, a tarmac road allowing people to drive to the temple’s doorstep, and a public toilet. —

Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023 The section of the track between Turns 3 and 4 were repaved since the race last February, leading drivers to believe that the fresh tarmac would lead to much higher grip. —

Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023 Our test vehicle delivered peerless ride quality though, which was appreciated over the broken tarmac near our Michigan headquarters. —

Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023 From space, in fact, the Afghans at the airport don’t look like humans at all but rather tiny dots scattered across a tarmac. —

Jordan G. Teicher, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022 See More

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