How to Use roadbed in a Sentence

roadbed

noun

• 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
• Roads cut off streams and bleed sediment; meanwhile, floods often erode roadbeds into muddy gullies.
  — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024