hard cement

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Describes cement that has fully dried and set into a solid state.

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  • The walkway is made of hard cement.
  • He fell and scraped his knee on the hard cement.
  • The wet mixture will become hard cement in about 24 hours.
  • The ground was as unyielding as hard cement.
  • Once the foundation is nothing but hard cement, we can start building the walls.
  • The children drew chalk pictures on the cool, hard cement of the sidewalk.
  • It was difficult to drill through the hard cement to install the new post.
  • After a week of curing, the mixture had turned into incredibly hard cement.
  • The prison yard was just a large expanse of grey, hard cement.
  • They broke up the old, hard cement with a jackhammer.