blacktop
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The first sounds of the morning came from the tinny speaker playing hip-hop and reggaeton, and the crash of pine trees falling on the blacktop.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
But even if you don’t get that privilege, I can’t think of a better place to stand on the blacktop and imagine what might be down the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
"When she starts running her mouth, you better not say anything back because she won't miss!" is what was shared amongst the dudes who battled her on the blacktop daily.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
On the morning of the landslide, Ron DeQuilettes, an electrical contractor who also did blacktop installation work, was to come to the house to give an estimate for a new driveway.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Several roads need to be blacktopped and curbs and flagpoles need to be replaced.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
But the gravel road is blacktopped now, there are fewer trees and more and more ordered rows of cotton.
From Time Magazine Archive
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By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He stepped directly from the crumbling blacktopped driveway out into the street.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The Wabash Valley Community Foundation and Smithville Telephone Co. have donated money in the past couple years for repairs and blacktopping at the cemetery.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
Take Dave Petrovits, who owns a company that does site development and blacktopping and who serves on the executive committee of the county Republican Party.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010
Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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