asphalt
Example Sentences
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Jerkin’ was what happened when you used asphalt as your dance floor and your hometown as your playground, reclaiming your place within it.
From Los Angeles Times
My family lived in East Highland Park, Va., just outside of Richmond, in an 800-square-foot house clad in gray asphalt shingle siding.
In a ritual unseen by the cameras, volunteers heave the floating icons toward the asphalt.
“Outside, the asphalt was rolling and heaving. ‘Asphalt waves,’ I thought when I saw it.”
From Literature
But inside the car, I steadily fed it power as I careened into the seemingly endless Turn 3, and felt it practically eat up asphalt through a slightly winding Turn 9.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
