asphalt

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Remember the Tour cyclist who abandoned his bicycle and decided to run up the mountain instead, clackety-clacking over hot asphalt in his plastic shoes?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

On Thursday many dog-walking New Yorkers were out early before temperatures grew unbearable and hot asphalt posed risks to their pets.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Coasting through the school door, weaving and winding across the pavement, riding the asphalt wave, avoiding the bus waiters and the pickup parents.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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 T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg

Until I get at the proper method of pouring and getting rid of the air-bubbles, it will be waste of time to experiment with other asphalts.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

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

Oil asphalts are used for dust layers, for binders for macadam roads, for asphalt cements for sheet pavement surfaces, and for fillers for block pavements and expansion joints.

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

"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

There are, however, in the city of Brooklyn many pleasant rides for an afternoon which are almost entirely on asphalted or macadamized roads.

From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various

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