metalled
Britishadjective
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made or mended with road metal
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fitted or covered with metal
Example Sentences
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The vice-president promised the small and subdued crowd free healthcare, a metalled road, better schools and sanitation.
From The Guardian
Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.
From The Guardian
Entire sections of metalled road had ceased to exist, dug up to a metre's depth.
From The Guardian
Most of the tunnel is still without the shotcrete lining, retaining walls or a metalled road.
From BBC
Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.
From The Guardian
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