asphalt
Example Sentences
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Marine Corps in the late 1980s, hunting for sources of asphalt for his late father’s shipping business.
I reach for a flyaway straw wrapper, then fall to my hands and knees, palms stinging against the hot asphalt.
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Chase glanced back at the previous breach just in time to see a large piece of asphalt slough off.
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A patch of normalcy in the midst of misery, the way a flower can grow in cracked asphalt.
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The asphalt dead-ends, but there’s a gravel driveway heading to the Boy Scout camp.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.