Sentences with phrase «like concrete»

It looks like the concrete floor was uneven at the several seams.

It requires energy - intensive building materials like concrete and fuel - burning construction equipment, all of which release carbon.

She'll roll on hard surfaces like concrete or paving stones.

Now a client of mine was faced with a settlement request that felt more like a concrete demand.

It just seems more and more like a concrete jungle than it was when I was growing up.

The rooms have become a favorite for some while others didn't like the concrete floors and the rooms with close proximity to the restaurant and lobby.

They have developed a product that looks very much like concrete and comes in a variety of colors.

Right now I'm calling people out of the phone book, I would just like a concrete road map when I speak to them.

This beautiful book about the water cycle is written almost like concrete poetry.

It doesn't smear once it sets, and it can bind the seams of a gingerbread house like concrete.

Some of them have open holes at their tops and bottoms and are stacked more or less like concrete sewer pipes.

But another 19 % comes from industrial sources, like concrete plants, whose CO2 emissions are not monitored at all.

It's dark without being too dark, it's berry without being too bright, and it's matte without making my lips look like concrete at the end of the day.

If your dog like the concrete then don't worry about a blanket.

At first I didn't comprehend how something so simple like a concrete floor could make such a difference.

It is a lot easier pay back the loan if you don't use materials with high embodied energy like concrete, plastic or aluminum.

It even cuts through harder materials like concrete, cement, and hard steel or softer ones.

Kids doing high - impact sports, like basketball and running, should do them on surfaces like tracks and wooden basketball courts, which can be more forgiving than surfaces like concrete.

I wanted one of my walls in this space to appear looking like concrete.

It feels like a concrete block with a velvety, baby friendly center.

But when you factor in the improbably implacable gameworld - fences, curbs, even bushes halting your progress like a concrete block - which clashes with the necessity to be swift and maneuverable, the engine, if you will, begins to stutter.

The objects in the image seem preternaturally still, pushed off to the left side of the frame: a liquefied elastic globule seems to pull down or just barely rest at the very corner of a marble slab, above it there is a chunk of what looks like concrete with rebar sticking erratically out of it that in turn appears to be floating upwards.

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By focusing on the landscape, the Colorado plains east of Denver and the «awe and wonder» of basic elements like concrete, wood, and glass, Cloepfil created a building that utilizes one of Denver's defining characteristics — sunlight — to showcase our own beautiful light as revealed through the building while simultaneously giving Still's work its own reveal and perfect setting.

Hiring managers like concrete examples of skills.

Daniel and Valeria of Hindsvik painted their vinyl flooring tiles to look like concrete for a clean, unfussy appearance.

Looks sort of like a Concrete Jungle doesn't it?

The museum itself was not open (it was a monday) but since the architect boyfriend really likes concrete buildings like this and the area in general is starting to develop real nice, we went anyway.

Pertaining to nighttime radiant cooling of solid surfaces like concrete slabs and porches to a clear sky in a southern winter as compared to concrete underneath a carport or covered porch, and with no wind, the unsheltered concrete areas in my observation would cool faster to the night sky than the sheltered concrete beneath a roof.

Actually, it's more like a concrete bunker.

Use a more fire - resistive material like concrete tile or slate for your roof.

Instead of going into the air, the pollution goes into a landfill or into products like concrete and drywall.

Tabby, which was used on the home's exterior, is a mixture of crushed oyster shells that dries like concrete and was often used by early settlers because its ingredients were readily found along the coast.

CLT doesn't burn very well, and it certainly doesn't rot or promote mold if protected with a roof and a wall over it, much like every concrete building.

The budget, as Matt Wald wrote yesterday, has ballooned 50 percent (because of the worldwide price spike in basics like concrete).

That's good news for Martin Marietta, a leading maker of construction supplies like concrete and gravel, and ranks among America's biggest companies on the Fortune 500.

using the semantics of atheism I could say there are unseen components to us we have yet to quantify or understand but that there is indeed more to us than meets the eye and a connectedness that is hard to describe but is like concrete once you are in tune with it

they simply have to start early and continue to groom you all the way into adulthood, then it is set in the mind like concrete.

On the same night and in a one - mile lime trial on the same track BRET HANOVER, the mighty 4 - year - old pacer, broke his own world record of 1:54, covering a mile in 1:53 [3/5] despite Driver Frank Ervin's earlier complaint that the racing surface was «like a concrete road.»

A few KC players complained about the field feeling like concrete after the game.

It's also true that some baby monitors will be hindered by things like concrete walls or metal.

«I would like concrete proposals on what sort of language I ought to include in an order,» Sharpe said.

They can range from very small (1/16») to larger bits for larger spacing and holes in something like concrete or brick.

At the same time, urban sprawl retreats like a concrete tide.

Since the volcano is still active, bunker - like concrete shelters are provided around the crater, built after a dozen people perished in a sudden eruption some 50 years ago.

The gene variants were positively associated with human density and the amount of impenetrable surfaces like concrete around the mice's habitats — clear evidence that the mice were adapting to urban life, the researchers reported this month in Molecular Ecology.