asphalt
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About 30,000 square feet of asphalt was removed, and 35 trees were planted at Esperanza Elementary School, increasing green space across the campus from 9% to 37%, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Parton penned many songs about all different aspects of her relationship with her devoted husband Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt paving business in Nashville.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He develops a reputation for aggression, seemingly fighting a war against everyone on the asphalt that spins out when he attempts to bully a cosmopolitan French driver into submission.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
We would loiter, mostly, and eat the shredded beef nachos that I still think about to this day while the plastic of our high-top Converse grilled on the scalding asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
As they tore through the other side and hit the asphalt again, the world warped and buckled around them.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
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 Arthur Ignatius Keller
Mixtures.—Water gas tars and asphalts are sometimes mixed to produce road materials, and likewise native asphalts and residues obtained from petroleum are sometimes mixed to produce asphalt cements for paving mixtures.
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
"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
Once outside, Alaric walked irresolutely, and as though unconscious of what he was doing, for a short distance, and then found himself seated on an iron bench at the edge of a broad asphalted driveway.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
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 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Even during the war, Eritrea developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war-damaged roads and bridges.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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