Concrete in sentence

821 examples of Concrete in a sentence

Every wall, every concrete wall is resisting the stresses and supporting the building.

It didn't have any paved roads in it, it didn't have the concrete slabs, it didn't have fencing to portion off your trailer slot from other trailer slots.

And the concrete result was that the number of child laborers globally has gone down by one third in the last 15 years.

So that we could be kids, not casket or concrete.

And it's strong: it has the tensile strength of steel, the compressive strength of concrete.

Not because it's monotone and concrete, but because of what it symbolizes: a monster that feeds off the rest of the country, where citizens are soldiers and slaves.

There are many different screws: wood screws, metal screws, anchors, concrete screws, the list went on and on.

And for 18 years, those 57 meters of concrete stayed grey.

In South Africa, in Cape Town, the local community of Philippi offered me the only concrete wall of the slum.

We want concrete, systematic, structural change that can equalize the political, economic and social realities for women and men.

We are asking men to make concrete actions, calling them to intervene at a personal level, to change their behavior.

Already, a number of prominent men and leaders have stepped up and made some concrete HeForShe commitments.

So for the last decade, I began seeking out these areas where the concrete yields to forest and the pines turn to cypress, and I viewed all these mosquitoes and reptiles, all these discomforts, as affirmations that I'd found true wilderness, and I embrace them wholly.

There's sun beating down, there's concrete and glass all around you.

In concrete terms, that means that the average human being is living on a level of social progress about the same of Cuba or Kazakhstan today.

Traditional burial consumes materials like metal, stone, and concrete, and can pollute soil and groundwater with toxic chemicals.

But feelings are fluid, not very concrete foundation for a definition.

One of the great tragedies of urban development is that as our cities grew, we started covering all the surfaces with concrete and asphalt.

So there's no need to start painting concrete green and putting in Astroturf and buying cactuses.

Plato argued mathematical concepts were concrete and as real as the universe itself, regardless of our knowledge of them.

That night with Sonny Boy and his family changed my life forever, because when it came time to go to sleep, we simply laid down on this concrete slab the size of half my bedroom with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family, seven of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us and cockroaches crawling all around.

I want to share the concrete example that I know best, my organization, One Acre Fund.

Extroverts prefer black-and-white, concrete, simple language.

Surrounded by tall, concrete walls, steel bars, where razor wire have a way of cutting away at the hopes for a brighter tomorrow.

And whether in the shape of informal concrete slums or broken social housing or trampled old towns or forests of skyscrapers, the contemporary urban archetypes that have emerged all across the Middle East have been one cause of the alienation and fragmentation of our communities.

So what we do is concrete things, and we translate technical issues into citizen language to show that citizens have a role to play and can play it together.

But what if we could avoid that problem, by creating concrete that heals itself?

It boils down to an understanding of how concrete forms, and how to exploit that process to our benefit.

While people have been using a variety of recipes to produce cement for over 4,000 years, concrete itself has a surprisingly short lifespan.

After 20 to 30 years, natural processes like concrete shrinkage, excessive freezing and thawing, and heavy loads can trigger cracking.

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