potholed

Example Sentences

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Empty plastic bottles pile up on the kerbs of its potholed streets.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Now, it needs to spend more again on the military and shore up crumbling infrastructure, from potholed roads to a decrepit rail system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The road leading to the park is potholed and in disrepair.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024

"The government has been promising us a better life for years," says Mr Bambatha, surveying his potholed street, and a vista of corrugated shacks beyond.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2023

There was a path, muddy and rutted and potholed, so people did sometimes come this way; but the flat horizon was so far away on every side that he had little sense of making progress.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman