How to Use asphalt in a Sentence

asphalt

1 of 2 noun

• The ride at easy paces is smooth on asphalt, dirt, grass, and gravel.
  — Outside, 9 Dec. 2025
• Of course, some people in town would love to see an asphalt truck come their way.
  — Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• And the street is paved with asphalt so thick that the sidewalks are not aligned with it.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• The mix ordered at the asphalt plant was key to its longevity.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
• The victim was thrown from the moped and landed on the asphalt.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
• The dream is to collect all the cones and drive a ribbon of new asphalt.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• The team’s goal is to track and predict how asphalt roads degrade.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
• Pirelli added a sixth dry compound to match the increase in asphalt types.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The crash damaged two support beams and put a hole in the asphalt on the bridge.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2022
• The older victim was found sprawled out on the asphalt.
  — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
• Where once there was asphalt, there is now a thriving ecosystem.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• On asphalt, a stiff broom paired with warm, soapy water can remove grime.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• Arias, 54, was thrown from her scooter and hit her head on the asphalt.
  — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
• First, crews will use a mill to remove the old asphalt, then a paver to lay down a new surface.
  — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
• The hot mix plant for a big paying project uses the asphalt rapidly.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
• The top two inches of the road will be replaced with new concrete and asphalt.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Apply fresh sealer to make a worn asphalt driveway look new again.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2023
• Black Lake is a slab of black asphalt that in the sunlight looks like water.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• The asphalt was built to last Texas’ hot summers and spongy terrain.
  — Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022
• Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The essence of the road trip is more than a sense of unfettered freedom on miles of asphalt.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
• The city even wants to use bricks instead of asphalt to retain the area's image.
  — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 16 May 2026
• Patch and seal the surface of the driveway, filling holes and cracks with asphalt patch.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2023
• Before the concrete bottom, the pool's basin was made of black asphalt.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 June 2026
• The high banks of the track and the car’s grippy fat tires hug Daytona’s asphalt.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• This isn’t just any old piece of Manhattan asphalt.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
• Before the concrete bottom, the pool was a black asphalt.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 8 June 2026
• There’s only so much ready asphalt to go around, and pickleball can’t get enough of it.
  — Ethan Singer, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
• In these damp conditions, a rear-drive Corvette would slip and slide across the asphalt.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
• Wetlands and rivers have been replaced with concrete and asphalt.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024

asphalt

2 of 2 verb

• The drop occurred across nearly all types of oil use, from gasoline for cars to asphalt and lubricants.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 30 June 2020
• Besides objects of the above type, the engine sucked in rocks and asphalt pieces from the taxiways and runways.
  — Clarence L. Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2021
• How much fugitive dust and emissions would the concrete and asphalt plants generate?
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 1 May 2021
• Some worry that tear gas residue could stick for days or weeks to asphalt, walls, ventilation ducts and other places.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• In Sacramento, a 14-year-old child is pinned to asphalt and beaten in the face.
  — Jennifer Tsai, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
• The facility will be used to produce a sealant to be applied to asphalt surfaces.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2021
• The airport has a single, asphalt runway that's 3,554 feet long.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2021
• One of these years legislators in this state will focus on human capital rather than asphalt.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• An unrelenting, one-third-mile bullring, the track now has asphalt in the low groove on both ends that add to the challenge of getting the car handling right.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2021
• The concrete on the bridges have been poured and asphalt work connecting the highway to the bridges is underway, the highway department said.
  — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2020
• That leaves 18 gallons for other uses, from making plastics and paint to asphalt and ammonia.
  — Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Buena Vista Baptist Church now worships a couple thousand feet from a methanol plant and asphalt depot.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• Those living in dense urban areas, surrounded by heat-absorbing concrete and asphalt with little green space, are especially at risk.
  — Ban Ki-Moon and Patrick Verkooijen, CNN, 17 July 2021
• In Cleveland, a plan has been scrapped to build concrete and asphalt plants on the Opportunity Corridor.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 July 2021
• Other outlets for that federal funding include infrastructure projects like converting 34 miles of tar-and-chip roads to asphalt.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• In places like the Phoenix metro area where concrete and asphalt absorb sunlight during the day and radiate heat at night, the urban heat-island effect pushed temperatures even higher.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2020
• Even for a person like me more accustomed to asphalt and concrete, there is romance in this future Old World, even stripped of the machines that have made the series and this review possible.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• Thomas says low-slope roofs have become more expensive than steep-slope, not because of the membrane, which is close to asphalt in cost, but because the removal and installation of materials is so labor-intensive.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• But lobbyists and transportation experts expect an outsize portion of the pavement spending to go to asphalt, the material that paves 94% of America's roads and bridges.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
• That’s especially true for low-income residents, who also disproportionately live in heat islands — areas where abundant concrete and asphalt soak up the sun’s rays and radiate excess heat, driving up the cost of staying cool.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• But lobbyists and transportation experts expect an outsize portion of the pavement spending to go to asphalt, the material that paves 94 percent of America’s roads and bridges (the other 6 percent are paved with concrete).
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• These days, Little Village’s industrial corridors are home to asphalt plants, rock and metal-crushing facilities, oil and gas facilities, and of course, warehousing, Acosta-Córdova said.
  — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021