asphalt
Example Sentences
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In a ritual unseen by the cameras, volunteers heave the floating icons toward the asphalt.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that the members of the American Iron and Steel Institute also sell asphalt and concrete.
From Washington Post
Prized for its healing qualities, mumia was a substance found on a single Persian mountainside where it seeped from black-rock asphalt.
From National Geographic
If the asphalt plant is built, we will be only one spill from polluting this restored portion of the river, not to mention all the trucking pollution that will occur as they transport asphalt.
From Seattle Times
He drove a truck, laid asphalt for the city.
From Los Angeles Times
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