asphalt

That race will be remembered for Pogacar crashing, picking his bloody butt off the asphalt, and coming back to win.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

The collapse was said to swallow up much of the home's driveway, and left broken asphalt, concrete and construction debris inside the hole.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Alex landed perfectly on the path at the bottom, dropped into a tuck, and zoomed down the asphalt.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

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

They may be petroleum residues or native asphalts fluxed with petroleum oils.

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

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

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

"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

Every asphalted or macadamized street in Philadelphia is given, but in many cases other streets are omitted, or every alternate street is given.

From Harper's Round Table, July 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

To remedy this, the asphalting was taken up and a Nicholson wood pavement was put down.

From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs