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

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