asphalt

While it’s unquestionably qualified for off-roading, where it really shines is on long, well-groomed asphalt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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

He develops a reputation for aggression, seemingly fighting a war against everyone on the asphalt that spins out when he attempts to bully a cosmopolitan French driver into submission.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

MLK Hospital currently treats some patients in large, air-conditioned tents set up on the asphalt outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

I pass through the main lot and turn into the open asphalt on the north side of the store, where employees park.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

Mixtures.—Water gas tars and asphalts are sometimes mixed to produce road materials, and likewise native asphalts and residues obtained from petroleum are sometimes mixed to produce asphalt cements for paving mixtures.

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

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

Fillers.—Fillers are solid asphalts or tars that are used for filling expansion joints in rigid pavements and for filling the spaces between the blocks in brick, wood block and stone block pavements.

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

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

I can see a little rivulet of water that flows sparkling down the asphalted runnel of the curb.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

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

They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting, so they voted to appropriate an enormous sum for asphalting.

From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs

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

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency