asphalt

IPA: ˈæsfɔɫt

A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits.
Ellipsis of asphalt concrete, a hard ground covering used for roads and walkways. [A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. (Often clipped elliptically as asphalt.)]

Examples of "asphalt" in Sentences

A lot bigger chunk of the earth is covered in asphalt than in mining works.
Craig – That the black Civic is buried to the axles in asphalt? cmholm Says:
Highway asphalt is streaked in red, and there's a steady exodus of mud-laden trucks heading away from Kolontar.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Innoventor perfected the process of converting the animal waste into a bio-oil used in asphalt binder.
AS I write this, beneath my window, with a great clattering of hoofs on the asphalt, is passing a long column of mountain batteries, all carried on the backs of our big Government mules.
First of all, those little air pockets mean less material overall, and with the cost of oil as unstable as the resource itself, petroleum-based asphalt is no longer the cheapest form of paving.
“Whew!” gasped a worker with Pace Construction Co., the St. Louis County road contractor that joined forces with Innoventor, the Earth City-based engineering and design firm that perfected the process of converting the animal waste into a bio-oil used in asphalt binder.
But it should also be said that they share the diversity of character of petroleums, and the term asphalt represents a group of substances of which the physical characters and chemical composition differ greatly in virtue of their derivation, and also differ from changes which they are constantly undergoing.