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Definition of tar-seal in English: tar-sealverb [with object]Australian, NZ Surface (a road) with tar or tarmacadam. many farmers had tar-sealed the roads to their front gates Example sentencesExamples - That is not a new road; it is a stretch of road that has just been tar-sealed.
- We are very concerned that if they tar-seal it, lots of people from Auckland and Tauranga will then want to drive on it.
- I sat in a queue of cars for a while as we made slow progress over the railway bridge, the tracks tar-sealed over to make a route for cars.
- We've just had our road tarsealed and an old guy on the sweeper stopped and had a chat in the shelter of our gateway.
- I would love my gravel road to be tar sealed.
- There are some places that do not need their roads tar-sealed.
- It has been progressively tar-sealed, bit by bit, and has been waiting for years to be completed.
- We have tar-sealed a few, but a lot more work needs to be done.
- He said we need to tar-seal every single road in New Zealand.
- It was my wish to get the road to Tawharanui tarsealed so that anyone could go out and see the wonderful regional park.
- Nowhere in the world has any city been able to tarseal its way out of gridlock.
noun mass nounAustralian, NZ A road surface of tar or tarmacadam. after Meko for 5km the road is dirt and is really bad, with huge potholes, then it's tar-seal to Abeokuta Example sentencesExamples - Mark Dean slowed for a 50m stretch of slippery and sunken tarseal on Oropi Rd that usually makes his four-wheel drive truck shudder.
- It has been waiting for tar-seal for years.
- The rest of the ride to the Friendly Bungalows wasn't quite as easy as predicted, as the tar seal soon gave way to deeply-gouged clay once again.
- The vast sums of money being turned into tarseal is the problem, not the solution.
- The sixteen mile ride was not always easy - no tar seal and often a nor'wester or sou'wester.
- On the way home from Hamilton, Sheryl's car skidded on melted tar-seal, slick with drizzle.
- Eventually we came to a small stretch of tar seal and a clearing in the trees that exposed the coast line.
- The driver lost control of the vehicle on the tarseal.
- He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tarseal.
- Travelling north you will very likely stop to look at the seals at Ohau Point where there is a pull-off area of tar seal on your right just past Half Moon Bay.
- Reality struck after the big four wheel drive turned off the tar seal at Waipiro.
- The last thing one does is dig up the runway just because the rest of the airfield does not happen to have any tar-seal.
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