asphalt

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Road builders lived in settlements along the oiled-dirt road they were creating; the asphalt came several years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Dorr was inspired by his wife, Nell, a renowned photographer, who was tired of riding shotgun and craning her neck out the window to see where the asphalt ended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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

That explained the big crack in the asphalt under me and why my skeletal structure felt...rearranged.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Such mixtures differ in degree only from the mixtures used for asphalt street paving, for discussion of which the various books on paving and asphalts should be consulted.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

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

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

Such is, in fact, the case; and these older asphalts are represented by Grahamite, Albertite, etc., which I have designated as asphaltic coals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

"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

The court was asphalted, the flowers were as if in baskets, the trees were the product of untiring care.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

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

Even during the war, Eritrea   developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads,   improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and bridges.

From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency