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asphalt

[as-fawlt, -falt] / ˈæs fɔlt, -fælt /
NOUN
bituminous substanced
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

It “addresses the effects of concrete, asphalt and other impervious surfaces that cover the urban landscape in these two watersheds, to protect water quality in the creeks, rivers and beaches downstream,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Pets are also at risk, with authorities recommending dogs remain indoors except for bathroom breaks, and warning owners to watch for hot asphalt that can burn paws.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Martin Marietta specializes in supplying heavy building materials such as crushed stone, sand, gravel and asphalt used across infrastructure, including highways and sidewalks, and in construction.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Coal remembered the feeling of the asphalt digging into his knees.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

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

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

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

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

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

He also said that his engineers could construct fifty miles of asphalted road in two days.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott

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

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




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