The city usually has several hundred workers assigned to various street repairs, but filling potholes is only a small part of their job.

She said she had filled potholes herself to publicize the department's efforts.

Pockets of slush filled potholes and broken edges of sidewalk.

Mr. Howland said that city purchasing authorities are slow to try new methods of filling potholes.

I glanced out at the expanse of muddy, water filled potholes caught in the headlights.

Merely filling potholes is considered to be normal maintenance.

"They need someone to roll up their sleeves and fill potholes."

Goma now has some of the better roads in the region, since lava happens to be ideal for filling potholes and building speed bumps.

The lid was sealed with a substance like the hot-patch highway departments used to fill potholes.

Yet summer was the time to fill potholes so that cartwheels and horses' hooves packed down the earth.