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Meanings of blacktop in English

A black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock.

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Usage of blacktop in English
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Maybe thirty seconds later, I heard the clopping of hooves on blacktop.
Summer knight
2
Marcie turned left onto the blacktop, the radio on the local station.
Burning bright
3
We left the cemetery and walked up the blacktop to our cars.
Fatal Voyage
4
It was a long, hot walk across broiling blacktop to the knoll.
Death angel
5
It was mid-morning and already the heat was shimmering on the blacktop.
Four to score
6
Katy turned onto a two-lane narrower than the blacktop we were leaving.
Bare Bones
7
Acid-green lizards sunned themselves in driveways where ferns poked through the blacktop.
Stories: all-new tales
8
The two-lane blacktop featured frequent subsidence swales, lumpy patches, and unrepaired potholes.
Dark rivers of the heart
9
It jumped off the two-lane blacktop and into the flat field beyond.
Engineering Infinity
10
He drove fast on the rut road, turned west on the blacktop.
Winter’s Bone
11
My head made a loud thwackkk as it bounced off the blacktop.
Climbing Magazine
12
Though fishtailing like mad, I didn't slow until I reached the blacktop.
Speaking in Bones
13
Water dripped down the side of the building and pooled on the blacktop.
Finger lickin' fifteen
14
Just the smooth blacktop behind and the ragged gritty ribbon ahead.
Nothing to lose
15
At the bottom were two lanes of blacktop that led east and west.
Dark rivers of the heart
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The security lamps spread bright fans across the blacktop immediately around the structure.
Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
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