asphalt
Example Sentences
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We drive until all I can see is gray asphalt and dingy buildings.
From Literature
A year ago, the back lot of Normont Early Education Center was little more than a bare, heat-radiating expanse of asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times
Weeds grew up everywhere, through cracks in the pavement, asphalt, and patches of dry, stony soil.
From Literature
The Eaton fire got as far as the garage of the house on Ganesha, but the roses, surrounded by asphalt, survived.
From Los Angeles Times
This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
