Examples of “asphalt” in a Sentence

noun A thick, sticky black substance used mainly for surfacing roads, mixed with sand and gravel.

• The kids drew chalk pictures on the warm asphalt outside our building.
• Workers laid fresh asphalt on the highway overnight.
• The playground was covered in cracked asphalt.

verb To cover a surface with asphalt.

• They hired a crew to asphalt our long gravel driveway this summer.
• Workers will asphalt the old bike path before the weather turns cold.
• The council plans to asphalt the parking lot next month.