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How to use the word asphalt in a Sentence?

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When my husband raised his hands and began to turn towards my son, two shots were fired at him, and then two shots at my child as well. And when the child fell on the asphalt, a third shot was fired in the direction of his head.

Alla Nechiporenko

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He kept on shooting, shooting, shooting, he shot one of my coworkers in the head, and then shot one of the customers in the stomach, and then my other customer got kind of like cuts because of the asphalt.

Brignetta Dickerson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I was taking a temperature reading for that specific day, we had higher temperatures when it came to low-tree-cover areas, with more infrastructure and more asphalt on the road, it was extremely hot, you can feel it. It wasn't something that was hidden. Like, you felt the temperatures.

Brionna Findley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now there is no apron. You can’t use that. The grip of that fresh asphalt is going to be so much faster that you’re going to have to be in it. It’s going to be more challenging, more difficult to pass. turn 2 was a big challenge before with the bumps and the lack of grip.

Martin Truex Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bleach is used as a very powerful disinfectant, it is logical that it be used to disinfect streets and asphalt, but here the damage has been brutal.

Mara Dolores Iglesias Bentez

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

At some point I heard a muffled sound... I saw the cars in front of me going [ down ]. I felt the asphalt was gone and I found Davide Capello going down in my car... I thought that it would be the end, that I was going to die, then my car stopped, there wasn't a head-on crash, so it got embedded somewhere.

Davide Capello

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Barbara Shipley, from the International Trade Workers Union, said. ' The men have been reportedly floating in the harbor for over a month after an asphalt delivery. They’re hungry. They’re tired. They’re dirty. They want to get paid and they want to go home. They want to see their families. Their families are all very concerned, i’ve been told they’re fishing off the side of the vessel.

Barbara Shipley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was behind the Yamahas and was trying to check how was the asphalt and the tyres and I saw that Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi had big( tyre) degradation, i said now is the time to change the tyres and when I changed then I saw that the track was completely dry, but it was difficult to understand.

Spaniard Marc Marquez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have started projects: health, sewerage, medical, agricultural projects, and local municipality services, now, the local municipalities are undertaking a project to asphalt the roads in all the cities of the region.

Akram Hasso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now, the local municipalities are undertaking a project to asphalt the roads in all the cities of the region.

Akram Hasso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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