asphalt

That race will be remembered for Pogacar crashing, picking his bloody butt off the asphalt, and coming back to win.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Images shared by the local transportation authority showed chunks of asphalt, reminiscent of earthquake damage, washed over by large waves.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“You’ve got to park in this monster,” he said, motioning to the acres of asphalt around him, “and then go find your seat in that monster.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

When I got to the road, I didn’t even care that the asphalt was burning hot under my bare feet.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

He also is developing what he says should be more-affordable pothole-resistant pavements, using non-petroleum "bio asphalts" derived from waste materials such as corn stalks and switch grass.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2010

They may be petroleum residues or native asphalts fluxed with petroleum oils.

From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg

Both coal tars and water gas tars of semi-solid consistency are also employed for the same class of construction as the liquid asphalts.

From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg

I wouldn’t change this trail to Top Hill for all the boulevards and asphalts of Chicago, and our ranch-house has got any hotel I saw skinned by a mile for real living.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford

Such is, in fact, the case; and these older asphalts are represented by Grahamite, Albertite, etc., which I have designated as asphaltic coals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

"For some reason," a deputy writes, "Brunner believes the asphalted driveway … is now his property."

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022

The next day, traffic flowed over the newly asphalted road, and life in the capital had returned to near normal.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.

From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019

Together, Paris’s schoolyards comprise just 80 hectares, and they won’t go completely green: École Riblette is keeping one of its yards asphalted so students can play sport.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018

The court was asphalted, the flowers were as if in baskets, the trees were the product of untiring care.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

The BR-163 connects the agricultural powerhouse state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon ports Miritituba and Santarém, and in November the army finished asphalting its last unpaved section.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2020

At the Arena Amazonia, where England will play their opening game against Italy on Saturday, workers are still asphalting the ground outside the stadium, fitting doors and fixing power cables in the changing room.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014

"We are happy and thankful to the foreigners for asphalting the 100km Ghorband-Kabul road," says Haji Ahmad, a truck driver from Shinwari.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2012

They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting, so they voted to appropriate an enormous sum for asphalting.

From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs

The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland—or, better still, asphalting.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore