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asphalt

[ UK /ˈæsfɒlt/ ]
[ US /ˈæsˌfɔɫt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons
  2. mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing
VERB
  1. cover with tar or asphalt
    asphalt the driveway

How To Use asphalt In A Sentence

  • After 12 months, we will convert the asphalt area into tennis and netball courts.
  • The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
  • Normally, asphalt road surfaces are built on top of a bed of concrete, which is itself built atop a bed of gravel.
  • The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
  • Steel is galvanized, walls are fairfaced concrete block, and floors are concrete or asphalt.
  • Yes Zach I would prefer "those mustard yellow matchstick built hovels, even with their big asphalt parking lots (with inevitable weed-filled cracks)". See for yourself (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Already, we are worlds away from the universes of The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing.
  • The asphalt ground was a gleaming with a glint of gray, and it seemed to shine incandescently.
  • And I have left the bones of my transient carcasses in pond bottoms, and glacial gravels, and asphaltum lakes. Chapter 21
  • Craig – That the black Civic is buried to the axles in asphalt? cmholm Says: Matthew Yglesias » Requests Thread
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