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Asphalt
"Asphalt" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The street is paved with asphalt.
They finally started to asphalt that road again. It was about time! You could only cycle zigzagging there if you didn't want your wheel to get buckled because of the holes in the road surface.
Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, but where it's interesting, there is no asphalt.
The asphalt was softened by the heat.
Millions of people, thousands of buildings, I walk through that maze, maze of concrete, concrete and iron, asphalt and glass.
Welcome to the asphalt jungle!
What's asphalt made of?
The old cobbles in the streets have gradually been substituted by asphalt in all cities.
The road is paved with asphalt.
The cobbles lie dormant beneath a layer of asphalt.
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The mining of asphalt was big business in this area in the early twentieth century.
Felltham wrote in the beginning of the 17th century of the “Bitumated walls of Babylon;” the source of its supply, the fountains of Is, on a tributary of the Euphrates, still yields asphalt.
Near-synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam, blacktop, bitumen
Please hose off the asphalt near the top of the driveway if the trucks get lots of mud on it.
Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
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