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blacktop

[blak-top] / ˈblækˌtɒp /
NOUN
asphalt
Synonyms
STRONG


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It’s time to grab your best fit and hit the blacktop of Chavez Ravine.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2025

Now let me tell you the SigAlert story, before it fades to blacktop.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2024

"When she starts running her mouth, you better not say anything back because she won't miss!" is what was shared amongst the dudes who battled her on the blacktop daily.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2024

On the morning of the landslide, Ron DeQuilettes, an electrical contractor who also did blacktop installation work, was to come to the house to give an estimate for a new driveway.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 2024

Once, when the two of us were the first out on the blacktop, I even tried apologizing for not telling her about the scorecard.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

Several roads need to be blacktopped and curbs and flagpoles need to be replaced.

From Washington Times Jan. 6, 2016

By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the gravel road is blacktopped now, there are fewer trees and more and more ordered rows of cotton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across the wide blacktopped, slushy street, those two older boys had caught sight of me again.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

The Wabash Valley Community Foundation and Smithville Telephone Co. have donated money in the past couple years for repairs and blacktopping at the cemetery.

From Washington Times Jan. 6, 2016

Take Dave Petrovits, who owns a company that does site development and blacktopping and who serves on the executive committee of the county Republican Party.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2010

Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year.

From Time Magazine Archive




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