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 may be washed out under the water, and you could be stranded or trapped.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 swings upward and is balanced by a counterweight.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
  • For nearly four miles out of Low Gap, the trail followed an old roadbed ruffed with ferns.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Driving almost blind at high speed, Bob Markle was unable to avoid a frost heave in the roadbed.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • An unidentified man approached the victim, picked him up and threw him onto the roadbed, police said.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • It was rerouted to 143rd Street and the old roadbed was blocked off, albeit poorly.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Vacuum-cars that suck up debris from the roadbed are also pushed by diesel locomotives.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Roads cut off streams and bleed sediment; meanwhile, floods often erode roadbeds into muddy gullies.
    — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • When the stone near the surface can no longer support the weight of overlying soil or a roadbed, the ground collapses and a sinkhole appears.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Another lasted about ten seconds before its pasta roadbed and pasta trusses gave up the pasta ghost.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • The sensor fabric spans the full width of the roadbed, with measurement nodes recording resistance changes as vehicles pass over.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The victim hit his head on the roadbed, but other commuters managed to pull him back onto the platform before a train could enter the station.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Officers also found a ladder on the elevated roadbed of the railway, not far from the museum.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Another supported his roadbed from below with a meter-long arch that used upright spaghetti beams to hold the load in compression rather than tension.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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

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