How to Use blacktop in a Sentence

blacktop

noun
  • Keep in mind that blacktop is much like concrete.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • The blessing will take place on the blacktop in front of the red barn.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And don’t wear your helmet, son, it will get scratched up on the blacktop.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The sand in hot-mix blacktop fills all the voids between the stones in the mix.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • The field right across the two-lane blacktop from Baja’s home.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The stones or rocks produce the overall strength of the blacktop.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • The phone shook, pointed at the ground, a blacktop covered in dry leaves.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • For kids this means new blacktop, smooth and unmarred by frost heaves or potholes.
    — Erin Kirkland, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
  • The chrome rally wheels, the blacktop’s sparkle, the emblems -- all matched.
    — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Green forests cover steep slopes on each side of the road, which turns from blacktop to dusty gravel.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Soft spots in the base beneath the blacktop can lead to depressions.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • The place where just as many basketball hoops are affixed to barns as in blacktop lots.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The blacktop is painted to mimic city roads and parking lots.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 1 June 2022
  • Our trunks and towels were stashed nearby just under the blacktop edge.
    — Susan Hoffman, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Avoid walks during the heat of the day, and protect paws when walking on hot blacktop.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 June 2023
  • But as early highways were prone to do, the blacktop shifted.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Both schools will also have their playgrounds and blacktops redone next month as part of the project.
    — Allison Sampite-Montecalvo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The movie children have filed out to the blacktop again to assemble in their groups of three and four.
    — Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The application said the lot would be repaired with cracks sealed and new blacktop.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The kids point an infrared thermometer at the blacktop and pull the trigger.
    — Curbed, 28 July 2023
  • They were forced to spend four days this week on the blacktop borrowing outdoor shoes to practice.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2022
  • In my case, the blacktop started to fracture into chunks about the size of a piece of pumpkin pie.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • That inspired one hoop-loving guy to start a nonprofit that changes blacktops from drab to fab.
    — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Children ran across blacktop that could reach over 120 degrees on warm days.
    — Meg Tanaka, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Baker, in socks with no shoes, begins running in a zig-zag pattern across the blacktop.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego U-T Preps, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Before the flood, a blacktop road ran through much of the community.
    — Rick Childress, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • This is rugged country, and most of our adventures (and chores) take us off blacktop roads and into the woods.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2020
  • In the 1960s, part of the former camp was covered in blacktop.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Sergine eyed some men gathering by a fence in the opposite corner of the blacktop.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2020
  • Maybe the blacktop crested a ridge and dropped into a cool, lush valley with a river running through it.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023

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