asphalts
- present tense form of asphalt (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
Classes of Bituminous Materials.—Bituminous materials may be classified, according to the source from which they are obtained, as coal tars, water gas tars, native or natural asphalts and oil or petroleum asphalts.
From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
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
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 MacGrath, Harold
Quite a rise in the world for a little girl who had once lived in a shabby apartment in New York and run barefooted on the wet asphalts, summer nights!
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
