asphalt

Example Sentences

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They left a lot of stuff behind, piled on the asphalt, promised to come back for it tomorrow, and if they weren’t back by then, I guess just throw it away.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

These days, transforming the asphalt landscape into a sandy oasis takes about a week, with almost 900 tonnes of sand – that's about six blue whales or 70 double-decker buses – trucked in.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

For almost 10 years, he said he was blacklisted by Chavez’s oil managers, who barred him from directly buying supplies from state energy monopoly PdVSA, forcing him to work through government-allied intermediaries to acquire asphalt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

I made the turn onto Dock Square, past the candy store with the taffy pull in the window, and then the asphalt turned to granite slabs as I made my way onto T Wharf.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen