asphalt

Images shared by the local transportation authority showed chunks of asphalt, reminiscent of earthquake damage, washed over by large waves.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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

Knife River produces construction materials including the crushed stone, sand and gravel used to make asphalt and concrete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

With the blink of an eye, the dirt path changes to worn-out asphalt.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

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

They may be petroleum residues or native asphalts fluxed with petroleum oils.

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

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

"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

North of the theatre was a disused burial-ground, later asphalted and turned into a public playground.

From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant

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

The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland—or, better still, asphalting.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

But in the roadways an amazing concourse of vehicles, mostly motor-driven, skimmed, skidded, and shot over burnished asphalting all, of course, at top-speed—else this were not Paris.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance