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

It drove along the potholed, rural road leading into the small eastern city and stopped at the site of the attack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 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

When I reached the two potholed courts with tattered nets and broken fences, I found assembled about them the largest crowd of black people I had ever seen about a tennis court.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane