CONCRETE in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for CONCRETE, such as:

1. A narrow concrete walk up to it.
2. Wait for the concrete to go hard.
3. The posts have to be set in concrete.
4. The statue has a solid concrete base.
5. Beauty is not concrete, but a window is.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCRETE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
concrete
 n.  solid mass; covering with cement; hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate , and gravel
Classic Sentence:
1  The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  A concrete sidewalk with a "parking" of grass and mud.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  A narrow concrete walk up to it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She stared with seriousness at every concrete crossing, every hitching-post, every rake for leaves; and to each house she devoted all her speculation.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story-and-a-half wooden residences, its muddy expanse from concrete walk to walk, its huddle of Fords and lumber-wagons, was too small to absorb her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Old and new cars on grease-blackened concrete floors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  A stream golloped through a concrete culvert beneath the road.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  They strolled with the half-dancing gait of lovers, kicking their feet out sideways or shuffling a dragging jig, and the concrete walk sounded to the broken two-four rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
11  The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The statue has a solid concrete base.
2  Wait for the concrete to go hard.
3  Beauty is not concrete, but a window is.
4  The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
5  The figures provide concrete evidence of the bank's claim to provide the best service.
6  The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
7  The Secretary General says the declaration must now be backed up by concrete and effective actions.
8  Let me give a concrete example of what I mean.
9  In a sense, the very institution of literary criticism is concrete testimony of this assumption.
10  The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
11  It is hard to prevent concrete from creeping.
12  The posts have to be set in concrete.
13  Your decision must be translated into specific, concrete actions.
14  The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
15  The anti-nuclear campaigners used concrete blocks and chains to attach themselves to the rails.