How to Use blacktop in a Sentence

blacktop

noun

• The blessing will take place on the blacktop in front of the red barn.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2021
• In the 1960s, part of the former camp was covered in blacktop.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
• The field right across the two-lane blacktop from Baja’s home.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Instead, many of the places kids play are seas of blacktop.
  — Curbed, 2 Sep. 2022
• The chrome rally wheels, the blacktop’s sparkle, the emblems -- all matched.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• And don’t wear your helmet, son, it will get scratched up on the blacktop.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2021
• The phone shook, pointed at the ground, a blacktop covered in dry leaves.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• The mountain holds and emanates heat the way blacktop does.
  — Holly Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
• The same fear, Pierce said, led most campers to keep the side panels of their tents zipped up, even as the blacktop began to broil.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
• If the weather is bad, the final coat of blacktop might need to go on in the spring of 2018, however.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 22 May 2017
• Avoid walks during the heat of the day, and protect paws when walking on hot blacktop.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• Court boundaries are marked onto the blacktop, and nets are BYO.
  — Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The kids point an infrared thermometer at the blacktop and pull the trigger.
  — Curbed, 28 July 2023
• The others drive in every day along the stretch of two-lane blacktop that separates the ranch from U.S. 60.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• 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 curving driveway, once blacktop, is repaved with brick.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2021
• During the eight-hour drive inland from Dakar to the northern town of Podor, the blacktop road crosses an ocean of crunchy sand.
  — Jori Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• 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 blacktop is painted to mimic city roads and parking lots.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• Even a daydreamy young girl had a hard time locating the divine over the glare of blacktop and the whine of power tools.
  — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
• Finally, about a mile north of that, is the Dani Creek Slide (post mile 22.6), where most of the blacktop has crumbled and fallen down the hill.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• For kids this means new blacktop, smooth and unmarred by frost heaves or potholes.
  — Erin Kirkland, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• Since blacktop wasn’t a wise location for the net, Repicky secured Ebert’s permission to move the net to the grass.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The application said the lot would be repaired with cracks sealed and new blacktop.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
• Traffic was brought to a standstill as drivers stopped their cars on the freeway to pick up cash that was strewn all over the blacktop.
  — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• Our trunks and towels were stashed nearby just under the blacktop edge.
  — Susan Hoffman, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Kids across the world, the NFL hopes, can play in the park with friends or on the blacktop at school while having the option to pursue a more competitive path all the way to the Olympics.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024