asphalt

Example Sentences

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They left a lot of stuff behind, piled on the asphalt, promised to come back for it tomorrow, and if they weren’t back by then, I guess just throw it away.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

These days, transforming the asphalt landscape into a sandy oasis takes about a week, with almost 900 tonnes of sand – that's about six blue whales or 70 double-decker buses – trucked in.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Marine Corps in the late 1980s, hunting for sources of asphalt for his late father’s shipping business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The truck bumped over a cracked and uneven asphalt lot, lit by a sign to the left that read “Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith