How to Use corrugate in a Sentence

corrugate

verb
  • There's a plastic corrugated roof to shelter half of it from rain and sun.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 May 2017
  • The inner liner of the tank will consist of a thin layer of corrugated steel.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 21 July 2017
  • Her body is vast and soft and lumpy, furrowed at the middle with slumping folds of flesh, roughly corrugated around her hips and thighs.
    Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
  • Many of these workers build their own homes out of garage doors, corrugated metal and cinderblocks.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2019
  • Roads and buildings throughout Haiti are crumbling, and most city dwellings are built of cinder-block walls and corrugated tin roofs.
    Jason Turbow, WIRED, 15 Oct. 1998
  • The walls of the bathrooms are corrugated tin, and the bathtubs are glossy white six-foot soakers; an outdoor platform has comfortable chairs in which to lounge.
    Cheryl Strayed, Vogue, 17 July 2018
  • Not for the first time, Alexander Bernas watched the tiny, concrete-block and corrugated-iron houses in this sprawling slum burn down to nearly nothing.
    Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2017
  • But if the surface is heavily corrugated, sandy, or dusty, lower the pressure to 30 psi.
    Ben Murphy, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Penna’s designs are for a fluted, or corrugated, concrete wall, and a second of high-strength double-wire mesh made of steel.
    Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Storm panels are corrugated, and each piece overlaps the next for maximum strength.
    Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Lining the bar is corrugated metal, salvaged from a barn on the property that the couple restored.
    Rebecca Juretic, sacbee.com, 23 June 2017
  • Owners Russ Williams and Bob Munn, his stepson, erected a simple structure of cinder blocks and corrugated steel with wooden doors on each unit.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2018
  • For five hours, all that can be seen is an endless expanse of ocher shifting to vermilion, corrugated by ancient crags and pocked with swirling violet salt pan lakes.
    David Prior, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Light streaming through windows once barred by corrugated steel.
    Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • No roads run between towns in Greenland—planes and boats are the only options for traversing a coastline corrugated by innumerable fjords and glacial tongues.
    Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • No roads run between towns in Greenland—planes and boats are the only options for traversing a coastline corrugated by innumerable fjords and glacial tongues.
    Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • In one of the crowded settlements of corrugated-metal homes, resident Vuyo Kazi washed her laundry outside as others poured used water into the street.
    Bram Janssen, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The Category 5 storm wrapped corrugated iron fencing around palm trees, ripped through roofs and facades on the island’s colorful homes, while also leaving fetid pools of water across the flat landscape.
    Tara John / Antigua, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The space is spare and clean, with teal and pomegranate crepe curtains, a polished concrete floor, corrugated wainscoting and a mix of new picnic tables, cafe four-tops and booths to accommodate about 50 people.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2017
  • In the second year people went for four-wheel-drive pick-ups, rebuilt their houses with new wood, corrugated iron or even cement, which is incredibly expensive to transport into the bush.
    The Economist, 5 July 2019
  • In the Soura area of Srinagar, which has seen some of the biggest protests and clashes, residents have barricaded the neighborhood by digging trenches, laying barbed wire and erecting poles and corrugated tin sheets to stop the raids.
    NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • In the Soura area of Srinagar, which has seen some of the biggest protests and clashes, residents have barricaded the neighborhood by digging trenches, laying barbed wire, and erecting poles and corrugated tin sheets to stop the raids.
    Aijaz Hussain, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The wings and fuselage were constructed from corrugated duralumin, a light, strong alloy of aluminum, copper, manganese, and magnesium, while the landing gear and bracing were all steel.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Made from cedar, wood and corrugated metal, and framed by Cryptomeria japonica and a potted umbrella pine, the sauna spills onto the back patio — an intimate seating area off the kitchen, where the couple has morning coffee.
    Amy Pennington, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • Also, some of the seawalls are made of vertical corrugated steel, which is inadequate, officials said.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
  • Thatch ceilings and corrugated-iron roofs blend into the farm community that surrounds this former coffee-processing plant.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Battered cars, corrugated metal, plywood, wrought iron and other debris covered street after street.
    Anika Kentish and Michael Weissenstein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Most homes are one-room corrugated-metal shacks that lack electricity, running water or indoor plumbing.
    Peg Tyre, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • Vardaman strode eagerly toward a rust-orange corrugated-metal horse barn.
    Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
  • These people would be piled into corrugated-metal hangars, which were partitioned into tiny rooms with ineffectual giant fans.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2019

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