asphalt
Example Sentences
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The fire on Jan. 22, believed to have been set by a homeless person, took out wooden framing below an asphalt bridge connecting access to a parking lot, making it unusable for safety reasons.
From Los Angeles Times
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
The Stellar Ruby had just received a cargo of Iranian asphalt from the Asphalt Star, which came from Iran, according to commodities data company Kpler.
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.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.