Macadamize

The ODA Loan from China was used to macadamize the “corruption highway” engineered by trusted VIP i.e. voracious and inept people and supported by the Chinese in exchanged for bigger concession in Spratley Islands. ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)

But the trustees wanting to macadamize the miserably pitched street of the town, he bethought him of dust in summer and mud in winter, and drew up a long memorial to the lords of the soil, remonstrating with them on their impolitic conduct; but all in vain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. ❋ Various (N/A)

Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The general plan adopted, and which has been adhered to, was to start at the city limits of the county-seat and to grade and macadamize all of the important public roads from this point out toward the township and the county limits. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. ❋ Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1880)

WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation. ❋ 1861 (1861)

A bill to incorporate a company to repair and macadamize the Beverley and Morgantown road. ❋ 1861 (1861)

WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston, Barbour and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation. ❋ 1861 (1861)

In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook. ❋ James Orton (1853)

The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize. ❋ William John Wills (1847)

Now Portland ought to lay itself out a little and macadamize all its streets just like this. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Several correspondents sent me what they believed to be such verbs; however, with one exception, they remembered words having suffixes (like macadamize). ❋ Unknown (2009)

‘brougham’, ‘to macadamize’, ‘to burke’, are all names of persons or from persons, and then transferred to things, on the score of some connection existing between the one and other {98}. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)

[I’m on] [the way] to [macadam] ❋ Bertooo (2023)

I’m [bout] to go [full] Lizzie Macadam on my [cat]🖐🏼. ❋ Bigboislaught (2019)