asphalt

Example Sentences

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They left a lot of stuff behind, piled on the asphalt, promised to come back for it tomorrow, and if they weren’t back by then, I guess just throw it away.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

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 • Feb. 28, 2026

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 • Feb. 20, 2026

“If you hadn’t tried to jump, one or all of us might have been crushed by the asphalt that got me. We were wasting time talking. You got us moving.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith