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asphalt

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


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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

About 30,000 square feet of asphalt was removed, and 35 trees were planted at Esperanza Elementary School, increasing green space across the campus from 9% to 37%, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The dog stops in the middle of the parking lot and barks, pulling me a few more steps over the worn 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

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

The asphalts, then, have a common history in this, that they are produced by the evaporation and oxidation of petroleum.

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

Classes of Bituminous Materials.—Bituminous materials may be classified, according to the source from which they are obtained, as coal tars, water gas tars, native or natural asphalts and oil or petroleum asphalts.

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

"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 should then go up Second Avenue, which is asphalted to Twenty-second Street, turn east into Lexington, and go up the latter to Thirty-second Street.

From Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 by Various

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

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


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