asphalt

Restaurants lucky enough to face freed asphalt push their patios past the curb.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Road builders lived in settlements along the oiled-dirt road they were creating; the asphalt came several years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Pets are also at risk, with authorities recommending dogs remain indoors except for bathroom breaks, and warning owners to watch for hot asphalt that can burn paws.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Martin Marietta specializes in supplying heavy building materials such as crushed stone, sand, gravel and asphalt used across infrastructure, including highways and sidewalks, and in construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

A long, low whistle unfurled along the cracked asphalt and landed in my lap, barely audible and then only to those listening.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

Fillers.—Fillers are solid asphalts or tars that are used for filling expansion joints in rigid pavements and for filling the spaces between the blocks in brick, wood block and stone block pavements.

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

The asphalts, then, have a common history in this, that they are produced by the evaporation and oxidation of petroleum.

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

Such mixtures differ in degree only from the mixtures used for asphalt street paving, for discussion of which the various books on paving and asphalts should be consulted.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

The wide asphalts reflected the horses and carriages and trains and pedestrians in forms grotesque, zigzagging, flitting, amusing, like a shadow-play upon a wrinkled, wind-blown curtain.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

"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

The asphalted road over the pass, called CG-2, connects El Pas de la Casa with the rest of the country.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021

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

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

Even during the war, Eritrea developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and bridges.

From The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To remedy this, the asphalting was taken up and a Nicholson wood pavement was put down.

From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs