Example collocations logo

Concrete in sentence

821 examples of Concrete in a sentence

Now, what about concrete?
This is what we call ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concrete.
Who said concrete bridges are dull?
Stepping onto the sidewalk, I then heard the sound of a steel chair slide across the concrete sidewalk in front of me.
The roof structure is made with cheap steel bars normally hiding inside concrete.
we start cutting them, and then we place them on top of the roof before we pour the concrete, and you have this result.
The innovation in this project is to cast mud like you cast concrete.
As I said, when I turned 60, it wasn't about that concrete "Can you do it?"
And while I don't have any concrete data to back up this next idea, I think that for a lot of us, it happens around the time we hit puberty.
But from Aristotle, let's move onto a more concrete example of complex systems.
These are two other pictures of soup, but you can see that these are more abstract These are not quite as concrete.
And incidentally, it is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome that's ever been built.
To make it even structurally possible, they had to invent super-strong concrete, and to control weight, varied the density of the aggregate as they worked their way up the dome.
It's more like the invention of concrete: important, absolutely necessary to build the Pantheon, and enduring, but entirely insufficient by itself.
However, just as the technology of concrete was critical in realization of the Pantheon, new designers will use the technologies of the Internet to create novel concepts that will endure.
We've shown that math phobia correlates with a concrete visceral sensation such as pain, of which we have every right to feel anxious.
Unfortunately, because of the pollution of the river, it has been covered little by little by concrete slabs since 1952.
And I keep it going, and I just got, (Laughter) also, this suggestion from Milan: it's our traffic divider, which we call "panettone," and it's painted; it's these beautiful concrete things that you use around Milan to define all the lanes of traffic.
So to give you a concrete feel for how a functional MRI experiment goes and what you can learn from it and what you can't, let me describe one of the first studies I ever did.
As it turned out, I would need that in reserve, because one year after my return, in, arguably, the safest place on earth, a bedroom at a friend's house, I fell from a third-story window onto the concrete below.
Let me make it a bit more concrete.
Man: So why can't we have a concrete defense?
It was covered in concrete to prevent mudslides, and somehow we saw a sort of river in it, and we imagined this river to be a river in Japanese style with koi carp swimming upstream.
It's about concrete.
It's never going to happen again, I think, because we are living on the verge of the greatest revolution in architecture since the invention of concrete, of steel, or of the elevator, and it's a media revolution.
And it means that a building doesn't have to be beautiful to be lovable, like this ugly little building in Spain, where the architects dug a hole, packed it with hay, and then poured concrete around it, and when the concrete dried, they invited someone to come and clean that hay out so that all that's left when it's done is this hideous little room that's filled with the imprints and scratches of how that place was made, and that becomes the most sublime place to watch a Spanish sunset.
In temperate climates, the cycle of seasons freezes and thaws these waterways, cracking pavement and concrete foundations.
Leaking pipes cause the same reaction in concrete buildings, and within 200 winters, most skyscrapers buckle and tumble down.
In cities built in river deltas like Houston, these buildings eventually wash away completely - filling nearby tributaries with crushed concrete.
And as sunken skyscrapers add crumbled concrete to the new forest floor, the soil acidity plummets, potentially allowing new plant life to thrive.
BackNext