CONCRETE in a Sentence
Learn CONCRETE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
39 example sentences for CONCRETE, such as:
1. A narrow concrete walk up to it.
2. Wait for the concrete to go hard.
3. The statue has a solid concrete base.
4. The posts have to be set in concrete.
5. Beauty is not concrete, but a window is.
2. Wait for the concrete to go hard.
3. The statue has a solid concrete base.
4. The posts have to be set in concrete.
5. Beauty is not concrete, but a window is.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONCRETE
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concrete
v. cover with cement
n. a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
Classic Sentence:
1 The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
2 A concrete sidewalk with a "parking" of grass and mud.
3 A narrow concrete walk up to it.
4 She stared with seriousness at every concrete crossing, every hitching-post, every rake for leaves; and to each house she devoted all her speculation.
5 Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story-and-a-half wooden residences, its muddy expanse from concrete walk to walk, its huddle of Fords and lumber-wagons, was too small to absorb her.
6 Old and new cars on grease-blackened concrete floors.
7 A stream golloped through a concrete culvert beneath the road.
8 They strolled with the half-dancing gait of lovers, kicking their feet out sideways or shuffling a dragging jig, and the concrete walk sounded to the broken two-four rhythm.
9 "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.
10 The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
11 The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral.
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 The statue has a solid concrete base.
2 Wait for the concrete to go hard.
3 Beauty is not concrete, but a window is.
4 The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
5 The figures provide concrete evidence of the bank's claim to provide the best service.
6 The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
7 The Secretary General says the declaration must now be backed up by concrete and effective actions.
8 Let me give a concrete example of what I mean.
9 In a sense, the very institution of literary criticism is concrete testimony of this assumption.
10 The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
11 It is hard to prevent concrete from creeping.
12 The posts have to be set in concrete.
13 Your decision must be translated into specific, concrete actions.
14 The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
15 The anti-nuclear campaigners used concrete blocks and chains to attach themselves to the rails.