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The promise of copious amounts of profitable new airlines, meanwhile, evaporated like jet fuel on a hot tarmac.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2025 The plane was evacuated onto the snowy tarmac, with terrified passengers – many of whom did not even have time to grab their coats – awaiting help in frigid temperatures.—Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2025 Industrial composting of organic waste, for example, is just tarmac, some industrial equipment, some air flow, and a lot of know-how.—Rob Day, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 The tremors caused significant damage to roads, tearing apart tarmac and buckling infrastructure.—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tarmac
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