asphalt
Example Sentences
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In a ritual unseen by the cameras, volunteers heave the floating icons toward the asphalt.
Video shows the unnamed officer getting up and stumbling, face-planting into the asphalt and concrete repeatedly as he was stung trying to escape the bees.
From Washington Times
I also support redeveloping these parking lots into something far more useful than black asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times
Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.
From Los Angeles Times
In Miami, drivers circled a track built in the parking lot of the Dolphins football stadium, past an artificial Monaco-style “harbor”: blue-painted asphalt topped with ersatz yachts.
From New York Times
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