How do you use Asphalt in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like mineral or pave, plus the exact meaning.
Asphalt in a sentence
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Asphalt meaning
- 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.
Using Asphalt
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: paving material, mineral pitch, mineral, pave.
- In the example corpus, asphalt often appears in combinations such as: the asphalt, of asphalt, and asphalt.
Context around Asphalt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Asphalt
- In this selection, "asphalt" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mixed, mix, conducting, concrete, bitumen and emulsion stand out and add context to how "asphalt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actually an asphalt 8 for and an existing asphalt surface. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "asphalt" sits close to words such as afloat, amplified and buddhism, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with asphalt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Building materials mainly include travertine, crushed stones, asphalt and asphalt concrete. (11 words)
Asphalt emulsion A number of technologies allow asphalt/bitumen to be mixed at much lower temperatures. (16 words)
Asphalt emulsions contain up to 70% asphalt/bitumen and typically less than 1.5% chemical additives. (16 words)
The 10-year-old me, walking home from the asphalt playground with a fine sheen of asphalt dust stuck to my sweaty face and a cough from the smog of Los Angeles, would have trouble believing the magic that is a part of my everyday life in rural Scotland. (49 words)
So while technically the roundabouts are one lane only and drivers should use the asphalt area, Chief Ormonde said that due to some gray area in the vehicle code, it is also technically legal to drive on the asphalt, on the brick, or even straddling them. (46 words)
A company named Hot Tar & Construction out of Spiro, OK has been known to go door to door telling residents they have left over asphalt from a large job and they will asphalt the resident’s driveway for a discounted price. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cold-mixed asphalt can also be made from asphalt emulsion to create pavements similar to hot-mixed asphalt, several inches in depth and asphalt emulsions are also blended into recycled hot-mix asphalt to create low-cost pavements.
Conducting asphalt testing for asphalt concrete, asphalt cement, and liquid asphalt in accordance with the City of Susanville’s Quality Assurance Program, attached as Attachment ‘2’.
The company offers hot-mix asphalt plants to produce asphalt paving materials; related asphalt plant equipment, including hot mix storage silos, fabric filtration systems, cold feed bins, and other plant components; and a range of mobile batch plants.
However, 'asphalt' is also commonly used as a shortened form of ' asphalt concrete ' (therefore equivalent to the British 'asphalt' or 'tarmac').
But now with the asphalt plant we’ll be able to produce more asphalt, do overlays and patching on a more frequent basis to allow our roads to be more drivable,” Premier Wheatley stated.
Prolongs the Life of Asphalt Surfaces: Spray sealing can add several years to the life of an existing asphalt surface.
We are looking at the methodology where the asphalt that is there right now could be dug up, milled through a process, mixed with fresh asphalt, and re-laid almost immediately,” the minister said.
A company named Hot Tar & Construction out of Spiro, OK has been known to go door to door telling residents they have left over asphalt from a large job and they will asphalt the resident’s driveway for a discounted price.
I believe the phone is perfectly fine for running games like Mobile and Asphalt 9. I played Sonic CD and Asphalt 9 and both games ran without any glitch.
The 10-year-old me, walking home from the asphalt playground with a fine sheen of asphalt dust stuck to my sweaty face and a cough from the smog of Los Angeles, would have trouble believing the magic that is a part of my everyday life in rural Scotland.
This project will include replacing existing damaged asphalt areas with new limerock base and asphalt to prevcent further damage to selected areas.
Well, there is actually an Asphalt 8 for PC released for Windows 8.1 and 10. But for those still using Windows 7 and older, no official Asphalt 8 was released.
A huge pile of asphalt is home base for PennDOT's recycled asphalt paving program in the Honesdale area, part of a construction season that is shifting focus from the busy highways to the back roads.
So while technically the roundabouts are one lane only and drivers should use the asphalt area, Chief Ormonde said that due to some gray area in the vehicle code, it is also technically legal to drive on the asphalt, on the brick, or even straddling them.
Thiessen said that asphalt was not considered to be a contaminate, although controls will be onsite and waste product that would be reclaimed and put back into other asphalt product.
When it thaws again, there's now a hole under the asphalt, and the weight of road traffic pushes that asphalt back down into that hole.
Asphalt emulsion A number of technologies allow asphalt/bitumen to be mixed at much lower temperatures.
Asphalt emulsions contain up to 70% asphalt/bitumen and typically less than 1.5% chemical additives.
Building materials mainly include travertine, crushed stones, asphalt and asphalt concrete.
Due to its highly viscous nature, asphalt/bitumen cement must be heated so it can be mixed with the aggregates at the asphalt mixing facility.
Common combinations with asphalt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the asphalt 32×
- of asphalt 24×
- and asphalt 17×
- asphalt and 15×
- an asphalt 11×
- asphalt is 8×
- asphalt concrete 7×
- asphalt plant 7×
- with asphalt 7×
- asphalt on 6×