blacktop

Example Sentences

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Water that had surged across the blacktop deposited significant sandbars.

From New York Times

Just across town, at a treeless lot for sanitation trucks on First Avenue in East Harlem, the blacktop registered at 115 degrees, a full 31 degrees hotter.

From New York Times

On his computer screen the property was just a square of grass and weeds next to a narrow ribbon of blacktop in a town he’d never heard of called Blytheville.

From Washington Post

Instead, rain dumps down and bounces from the blacktop.

From New York Times

On a recent Sunday morning, about 50 volunteers turned out to clean this steep Seattle oasis, where the blacktop ends and blackberry bramble gives way to a wooded hillside path.

From Seattle Times