asphalt

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

Parton penned many songs about all different aspects of her relationship with her devoted husband Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt paving business in Nashville.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

MLK Hospital currently treats some patients in large, air-conditioned tents set up on the asphalt outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Restaurants lucky enough to face freed asphalt push their patios past the curb.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

I made the turn onto Dock Square, past the candy store with the taffy pull in the window, and then the asphalt turned to granite slabs as I made my way onto T Wharf.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

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

Mixtures.—Water gas tars and asphalts are sometimes mixed to produce road materials, and likewise native asphalts and residues obtained from petroleum are sometimes mixed to produce asphalt cements for paving mixtures.

From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg

Such mixtures differ in degree only from the mixtures used for asphalt street paving, for discussion of which the various books on paving and asphalts should be consulted.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

"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

The path, which had been almost indistinguishable from the roadway, was now asphalted, and I stopped to read a notice board concerning vagrants, wondering whether I ought to be reckoned under that denomination.

From Chatterbox, 1905. 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

Even during the war, Eritrea   developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads,   improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and bridges.

From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland—or, better still, asphalting.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore