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    1. We can prevail upon our own family members, neighbours and authorities to take concrete steps to remove the common causes of flooding i


    2. Concrete footings should be used


    3. The roof is corrugated iron and the walls are unpainted concrete


    4. Concrete walls and floor!


    5. She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and


    6. The wheels hit a patch of gravel and the car skids straight towards the concrete of a bridge crossing the motorway


    7. The walls were breeze-block, roughly pointed, and the floor of the cell was the same rough concrete as the corridor


    8. By edging my way along the mattress I could position myself opposite where I thought the bucket should be and then I shuffled forward onto the rough concrete floor


    9. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock


    10. With the last tread of rubber on concrete outside my cell door I pulled the sack over my head and waited

    11. I measured time in solid blocks of obscurity punctuated by the slide of battered tin across concrete


    12. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    13. Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night


    14. They led us out of our cell and along a wide corridor and past empty and dilapidated glass-shelled office spaces, through a set of double doors and up one flight of concrete steps


    15. Even so, she felt lousy, as if someone had filled her head with concrete … thinking actually hurt – what she’d have been feeling like without the medicine did not bear contemplation


    16. She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and to her utter amazement stars in their millions


    17. the earth dry, above the crumbling concrete


    18. Surrounded by shivers of concrete,


    19. the echo of concrete tapping shoes


    20. cold concrete and shitting myself

    21. I realise Athens too has its unfair share of insidious tourist traps just like Cornwall and no doubt the traffic is nightmare and yes, it's a sprawling jumble of concrete and marble, of ancient and modern, of the implausible and the miraculous, but then they say Athens teems with spectacular sights, superb cafes, and much more that you just won't find in any modern city


    22. Talos jumped up, 'All I said was that the organisation has made a concrete proposition that will save the village, but for it to work we will have to make compromises


    23. As he sat on his own on a stool at one end of the bar nursing a pint of bitter, ignoring the world from behind a face fit to curdle concrete, he suddenly started to hear the sounds of people’s voices around him


    24. Outside, in the bleak, bottom numbing reality of the concrete


    25. concrete dust filled the streets of New York


    26. "Can you tell me something more concrete?" He finally got his hands off of her


    27. ‘Portsmouth was all concrete and the only green of any size was manicured and unnatural


    28. She looked at the mossy and eroding concrete and could scarcely imagine so ancient a time


    29. This dungeon was rough stone rather than crumbling concrete, no plaster


    30. Unlike Reston, it was colorful and in good repair, not gaunt, rusted steel skeletons and crumbly, graffiti-covered concrete covered with moss, kudzu and choke-cherry

    31. I was so caught up in my concrete questions that I’d


    32. behind a face fit to curdle concrete, he suddenly started to hear the


    33. practically covered in concrete tank traps and barbed wire


    34. There were narrow city homes along here, but most were of concrete block rather than cast stone and growth


    35. A series of immense concrete blocks lined the high-water


    36. gratitude in certain, rather concrete ways


    37. helped, as did the metal and concrete barriers which appeared


    38. Even so, around the concrete


    39. I first grew up in an abandoned concrete parking garage that my dad had planked in,” her eyes went that far away and she stared thru his procedure schedule that was hanging on the wall opposite her


    40. George came from the house after the project had advanced sufficiently and mixed concrete to fill the remaining spaces of the posts' holes as Harry moved on to the remaining ones opened up by the twins

    41. Buttressing the old granite portico was a wall in reinforced concrete


    42. I first grew up in an abandoned concrete parking garage that my dad had planked in


    43. A moment, an idyll, a place of worship, and in that moment he truly loves her, briefly and without question, and continues to do so until he recognises the sounds of the promised land for what they are; tyres on ribbed concrete, car doors slamming and leather soles on gravel


    44. He holds his hand over his nose and mouth as he makes his way to the back of the barn to open up the double doors that lead down on to concrete hard standing at the entrance to the top field


    45. The floor concrete


    46. The tunnel was a constant decline of concrete and neon lights


    47. concrete floor Roman had expected were nowhere to be found


    48. ' More post holes were dug for several piers beside the kitchen/dining room exterior wall, with more concrete and squaring


    49. scooting on the concrete floor, one by one


    50. It was now grimy stone and concrete factories where textile machinery was made and maintained














































    1. Anyway, they concreted over the whole place


    2. Then you get the questionable problem of where do you draw the line… and why? Where do you draw an ethical line? Where do you draw a moral line? Where do you draw a territorial line? Where do you draw an abstract line of any sort…? And turn it into an actual road, an actual wall, an actual tradition, an actual ethic, and an actual value-idea-expression that is concreted by you


    3. All the walls and roads and buildings and territorial boundaries invented because humans can imagine an abstract line-separation where there was no separation, and make that abstract imaginary separation concrete… accumulates and accumulates until nobody can go anywhere or do anything because everything is forbidden and limited by concreted lines, and everyone must follow these concrete lines and never ask questions and never ask why all these linear abstract pieces of shit exist in the first place because the abstract line is more important than all of: Life


    4. These symbols were then concreted back into segments of metal: money was invented… which was then further abstracted back into pieces of paper


    5. By living inside an artificially concreted set of walls and separations, the human psyche developed its own barriers which cut off, stunted and distorted the development of Love, Giving, Trusting, Happiness


    6. It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several others, I sat down before a large Constantine's bath of it, I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the liquid part


    7. While the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching out after the revolving line-tubs, oars, and other floating furniture, while aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his legs upwards to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks; and Stubb was lustily singing out for some one to ladle him up; and while the old man's line—now parting—admitted of his pulling into the creamy pool to rescue whom he could;—in that wild simultaneousness of a thousand concreted perils,—Ahab's yet unstricken boat seemed drawn up towards Heaven by invisible wires,—as, arrow-like, shooting perpendicularly from the sea, the White Whale dashed his broad forehead against its bottom, and sent it, turning over and over, into the air; till it fell again—gunwale downwards—and Ahab and his men struggled out from under it, like seals from a sea-side cave


    1. Concretes for which common feature is slag-alkaline binders application are included into group of slag-alkaline concrete


    2. „Maybe the concrete"s insulating us


    3. These include wood, metals, concretes, etc


    1. "All it needs is a water supply and the floor concreting," he insisted


    2. That was really impractical, without the help of the concreting team


    3. , the One Unmanifested Logos, the Second manifested, the triangle concreting into the Quaternary or Tetragrammaton, and the rays of the latter on the material plane


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    Synonyms for "concrete"

    concrete solid firm strong compressed hard dense tangible specific particular real accurate definite singular cement mortar asphalt

    "concrete" definitions

    a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water


    cover with cement


    form into a solid mass; coalesce


    capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary


    formed by the coalescence of particles