asphalt

And no one disputes that a free green space is an improvement on an asphalt lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

"The playground was just an asphalt strip between two rows of prefab buildings," he said, adding meetings with education authorities proved pointless.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Days later, he was flying across the asphalt and cobblestones to a gold medal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

It was a two-storied building covered with pale green asphalt shingles.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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 Harold MacGrath

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

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

"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

It is said to be the highest asphalted road in the Pyrenees.

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

We put up iron railings to keep the explorers to our own sordidly asphalted paths.

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by E. (Edith) Nesbit

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

I had also warned him to look out for, and he succeeded in finding, beds of bitumen permeated with petroleum: this material will prove valuable for fuel and for asphalting, if not for sale.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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