How to Use pothole in a Sentence

pothole

noun
  • Is there a safe way to avoid potholes?
    — Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The city with the most potholes and bumpy streets?
    — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • How many potholes are filled per day by the city?
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There weren’t as many potholes.
    — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
  • And the city can get back to fixing potholes.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Why does the freeze-thaw cycle lead to so many potholes?
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Swerve to avoid a car that's swerving to avoid a pothole.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Fix the potholes, or fight the power?
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There are no guardrails, but there are plenty of potholes.
    — Lz Granderson, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The road to owning a new-to-you car can be fraught with potholes.
    — Robert Duffer, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • As the old saying goes, there is no red or blue way to fix a pothole.
    — Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • If those pothole fillers dawdle, that may be the best bet for a smooth ride.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The car has springs, to isolate your tush from the bumps and potholes on the road.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • Who said the road to self-driving cars wouldn’t have a few potholes along the way?
    — Alyssa Abkowitz, WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • Crews have filled 235 potholes on that block so far this year.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But between us and Point lay a long stretch of small potholes.
    — Tom Hinman, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2024
  • But, his early cruise hit a pothole with one out in the fourth inning.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • This gap is driven over, and a pothole is left behind.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But her road to this moment was filled with detours and potholes.
    — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Check out which states had the most and least pothole complaints below.
    — al, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The suit also says there should have been cones or ropes warning of the pothole.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Chicago has not had a great pothole mayor since.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • There were bumps and bruises and cracks, even a pothole needing a weed-whack.
    — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • She was thrown from a vehicle that hit a large pothole, and her head was run over.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Some potholes were there for so long and were so large that the family would name them.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As the two overlap this month, pothole season emerges.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • This is a permanent fix for these potholes.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The cul-de-sac was cracked and pitted, and filthy water pooled in the potholes.
    — J. Robert Lennon, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • And as the year comes to a close, winter carries with it the prospect of more potholes.
    — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Well, not driving for long — the kids hit a pothole, spin out, and crash into a tree.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025

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