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