英语词汇“blacktop”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The late-day Bakersfield sun beats down, bouncing off from the cars and the blacktop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Booker had an enormous blacktop where they had recess and PE and lunch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knew they really wanted to go out to the blacktop, and I tried to tell them they didn’t have to stay indoors just because I was being punished. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward, and the wheels rolled easily over the thick grass of the yard and onto the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I hate doing anything active, but in elementary school, PE meant going out on the blacktop in your regular clothes and playing softball or capture the flag. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At times hurt and anger radiated from them like heat rising from Idaho blacktop in the sun. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stokely spit on the blacktop, stood up, and extended his long arm to help me up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you thought about us going outside? The school rule says we can’t go out in the snow. We can go out on the blacktop, but it’s too crowded and there’s nothing to do.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s hot as sin and steam’s already rising off the blacktop, kids are throwing balls, kicking cans, skipping rope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What had happened at the lockers, on the bus, on the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped directly from the crumbling blacktopped driveway out into the street. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figures half mired in the blacktop, clutching themselves, mouths howling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walk around the front of his car, open the passenger door, and sit, keeping one foot out on the blacktop. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A short sidewalk led over to the blacktopped driveway, and both the sidewalk and the blacktop were just as crumbly as the porch, with large patches of rocks and dirt showing through. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The second shot missed, hit the blacktop a foot behind me and flew away humming like a bee. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One time Max and I joined a game called untag on the blacktop—not elementary school tag, but a whole different version, with crazy-complicated rules. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And given the present setting—a dark, treacherous bend of blacktop—it was pretty easy to come up with something good. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I scooped up a handful of pebbles and started laying them out on the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope we get in before this rain starts,” Mom muttered as we turned at Seagull Way into the enormous blacktopped parking lot of the campus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it down close to the blacktop, then up high in the air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My head cracked against the icy blacktop, and I felt something solid and cold pinning me to the ground. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was still clutching my arm as she led us out the lunchroom door onto the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Wardak was out on the blacktop, so she couldn’t yell at me for being in the hallway. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But even when we weren’t together on the blacktop, or inside the building,I always knew Omi had an eye out for me—paying attention in her own quiet way. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They ran to their respective buses, the soles of their sneakers slapping on the blacktop, calling “One-two-three!” and “Zoot!” behind them. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And on the blacktop yesterday at lunch, he’d acted as if he hadn’t even noticed anything. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I cross the blacktop, squinting and glancing around myself. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this van kept driving, right off the blacktop and over the grass toward our field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When lunchtime came, I got a hummus-on-pita and a chocolate chip cookie, went out to the blacktop, and looked around. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Max distracted her inside the cafeteria, Zara and I would run out to the blacktop and make a giant O out of pebbles. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t even describe how mad I felt, leaving the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Across the wide blacktopped, slushy street, those two older boys had caught sight of me again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stokely sat down on the blacktop, stretching his long legs out in front of him. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I needed to get off the blacktop now. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the strip of blacktop leading to the Rolland fairgrounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the blacktop, nobody wanted to play kickball. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and ran off the blacktop, to a quiet spot behind the jungle gym. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The blacktop twisted through a wooded area like a river and soon the sound of the highway had faded away behind them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out of money on the way, so I got off here and found a job laying blacktop for a few days, trying to earn enough for another bus ticket. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I did not think he could see me, since I had stepped a way off the blacktop to look at the pond; Faro was sitting still in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But after a few minutes of nonstop running across the blacktop in a sort of figure eight, my lungs were burning and I had a sharp cramp in my side. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slammed my locker door and flew down the hall, outdoors to the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Faro seemed to feel the same way—at least he did not scurry around and sniff, but just plodded along quietly, his toenails clicking on the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Past the wavering band of blacktop, the outline of our neighbors house ran against the sky like watery paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The blacktop underneath had buckled in the heat and then set back again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

With the exception of a few abandoned cars and green Dumpsters, the enormous blacktop parking lot was empty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And when she felt ready, they walked together back to the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

After we were done eating, the three of us usually went outside to the blacktop. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted the toe of her sneaker into the blacktop pavement. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

While Sosie digested the shock of it, Fawnda flipped the notebook closed, placed it back in the purse, and stared out at the kids racing around screaming on the blacktop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The word conjures up drive-ins, tract homes, waves of heat rising from the blacktop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they got to the blacktop they had to turn back along the road to fetch the cart but it was less than a mile. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked once around the perimeter of the blacktop, nibbling the chips off the cookie, counting the length and width by the number of times my sneakers touched the asphalt. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kind when the streets seem to be melting—the blacktop actually sticks to my shoes as I’m walking back to my pad from dropping the bets off to Archie. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just the sound of the Dreidel devouring the blacktop as she speeds downhill. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Neither of us was allowed on the blacktop the whole rest of the week. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked when my mom picked me up on the blacktop after school that day. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, that girl’s hot as Tunica blacktop,” Stuart says under his breath and I suppose that’s when I just stop caring what happens. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a big blacktop area with basketball hoops and hopscotch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Omi had followed Max off the blacktop, maybe to be loyal to Max, maybe to avoid watching things get weird between Zara and me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She never came out to the blacktop either. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved now around the blacktop, taking shots, grabbing my own rebounds, moving to another spot. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

My eyes would narrow until all I could see was the blacktop racing under me, and I’d hold on to the rage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We stared out atSnapfinger Cemetery, and the blacktopped Rural Route 2 that stretched out to bigger roads across all of Mississippi and beyond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for Ellen in front of her boyfriend’s Jeep as the sun pushes my feet further into the hot blacktop of the school parking lot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Still, a bunch of kids were out on the blacktop, doing blacktop things. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They set off down the blacktop in opposite directions. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once, when the two of us were the first out on the blacktop, I even tried apologizing for not telling her about the scorecard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The crew laid heavy tarps over the cracked blacktop yard. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He did not stay on the blacktop but went along the edge, the side toward Burden Creek, walking where there were trees and bushes to hide him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had been last Wednesday, and they were on the blacktop at school. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of parked automobiles out there, twinkling on a vast lake of blacktop. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam told the kids at school all about it on the blacktop the next day. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

We ran over to the far edge of the blacktop, where a strip of pebbles divided the ground into School and Not-School. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tractor had come out of the trees and ran in plain view down the blacktop, covering the last half mile to the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The chaplain did not dare raise his eyes until the closed car had lurched from the area and the speeding wheels were whining on the bumpy blacktop road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Booker had an enormous blacktop where they had recess and PE and lunch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the blacktop, kids got tired of talking about the volcano. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was on the blacktop, and was coming my way at top speed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We step out onto the blacktop, feel the heat cover us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In half an hour they reached a blacktop road on the edge of a town, and the raven flew back into the wood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to look at Max, but he’d turned away, watching something or someone across the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Heading south from the Clare Valley, the two-lane blacktop is flanked by fields of barley and wheat tall enough to catch the wind in waves, before breaking on lonely gumtrees. The epicurean way: a four-day road trip around South Australia's wine regions 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

So she challenged an entire class of 12-year-olds to name all the capitals on the map painted on the playground blacktop — and invited a local newspaper reporter to watch. The coolest, weirdest Internet community you’ll never be able to join

From Giresun I drove west, diverting right after Ordu from the main highway to a sinuous stretch of two-lane blacktop marked by small harbors clogged with fishing trawlers. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z

A baby turtle crawling down a blacktop resulted in a mother-daughter exchange in "Low Tide." The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

I grew up on the blacktop — where we teens and preteens pounded basketballs from sunup till the lights at the park went dark. The peanut butter oatmeal that cures teenage hunger 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Water that had surged across the blacktop deposited significant sandbars. It’s the Cool Season in Death Valley 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

The landscape was gorgeous and thrilling, long stretches of the blacktop paralleling buttes that were striated purple and pink. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z

The sound rips clear across the parking lot, where six cops on horseback patrol the blacktop, expecting the worst. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

An open blacktop on the site beckoned even more players, who need only a portable net and chalk or tape to make a court. Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The blacktop plunged into the village of Mexican Hat as the desert morning stretched taut across the sky. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z

The music itself is propulsive, rolling, repetitive in deliberate ways, and insomuch as it conjures a single image it’s of smooth and endless blacktop, receding in a rearview mirror. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The same blacktopped laboratory tables are there, but now they are newly made and turned into proper desks. The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around 2012-12-05T22:44:46Z

“A full moon rising on a cloudy night casts an eerie glow on a Godforsaken blacktop highway winding its way along the upper coast of Maine.” Review: Stranded. And Don’t Expect Help From Those Animals. 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

A few, like squirrels on two-lane blacktop, will lose all composure and become roadkill. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

I then drove the familiar majestic winding blacktop roads towards Borgarnes on the west coast, across the bridge spanning the Borgarfjörður fjord, and was home. From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essay 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

So hot the blacktop stuck to his sneakers, Brian told me that afternoon before he left for work. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z

Other points of uncertainty include how to bring more shade to the stretch of sun-baked blacktop next to Circus Circus and how to boost food offerings to meet Las Vegas' high standards. Bruno Mars closes out Rock in Rio festival with a bang 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Rolling Down the Road for Lobster Foraging hits the blacktop in a new lobster-themed bicycle crawl from the White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, Me. In Transit Blog: Rolling Down the Road for Lobster 2013-08-28T18:55:00Z

She views life experience as an “infinite blacktop of things you’d regret not knowing later” and her future as “a long series of empty moments that took me down a … highway to nowhere in particular.” Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a warm spring morning in Washington, and once again the blacktop at the White House is starting to heat up. Driveway drive-bys: With formal briefings long gone, Trump’s aides meet the press (briefly) in an unusual spot 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

I arrived at my tour group’s rustic meeting spot — a Food Lion parking lot — and was surprised to find the blacktop void of humanity. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

A dusty Volvo wagon and the unfurling two-lane blacktops of rural Oklahoma get just about equal screen time in this unique road movie that is often touching and heartfelt, yet remains a fundamentally hollow experience. 'Barking Water': A couple reconnect on their final road trip together 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z

But too few take the blacktop further than a couple hours from home. Amazing Motorcycle Trips 2010-12-02T20:35:00Z

He’s back home in one of the two Kentuckys — “east and west, dirt and blacktop” — and you can guess which. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Or if I had, they were on my periphery, some fenced-off blacktop in a bigger green park, loud and packed with brats in the day, or seedy and dark with shadows at night. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

My toy foam surfboard clip-clopping against my knees, towel scratching my neck, rubber slippers squeaking on steamy blacktop. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z

It’s Sunday so old heads like me throw on Under Armour mixed with Nike Dry Fit and try to blend in with the high schoolers on the blacktop ⎯ the up-and-coming stars. My neighborhood revolution, one letter at a time 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

On warm summer afternoons in the 1960s, their rich, sweet aroma wafted out to the driveway, where I’d be playing stickball or drawing hopscotch courts with chalk on the hot blacktop. For my dad, cooking started with olive oil, garlic, parsley — and love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

The chains are pressed into the blacktop, as if some hapless squirrel or armadillo squashed by a speeding car. Bling with a cheeky ring in Luis Gispert's 'Aqua Regia' exhibition 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Is it possible to experience a national park’s wildness in the time usually allotted for a blacktop tour? Joshua Tree National Park: Into the wild, hours from L.A. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Unrushed, melancholic, worldly and subline, this is a timeless rock album designed to be played this summer racing across a shimmering blacktop with the top down. New this week: ‘Zola,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ and a Felicity Jones film 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

And a weathered stretch of blacktop provided by a Methodist church became her yard, her neighborhood and her safe place. In Kirkland and across U.S., working people are living out of their cars 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

The rains ripped out blacktop and washed out dirt roads to cut off some areas while inundating communities in southern Vermont. Vermont’s flood-wracked capital city ponders a rebuild with one eye on climate change 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

By the time I looked over, the hiker had already reached the blacktop and scrunched his lean frame beneath a metal informational sign — the overlook’s only spot of shade. I searched hell on Earth for a story. What I found will haunt me forever 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Why would he allow a cluttered 24-mile stretch of blacktop determine the path of his team’s championship journey? Plaschke: Arte Moreno and the Angels would never trade Ohtani to the Dodgers? Why not? 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Do you have sunken and cracked places in your blacktop driveway? What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Because horsetail even comes up through blacktop, imagine how quickly it works its way through cardboard. Ciscoe Morris IDs a magically appearing (and ridiculously stinky) plant 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

Most days after class, my friends and I would ride our bikes around the expansive blacktop directly next to our school’s playground. Student Voices: Better bike parking could remove roadblocks for student cyclists 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

Coach Ruben Torres was tasked with fielding a competitive program in the upper divisions of the City Section that had to practice taking grounders on blacktops and grass. Garfield celebrates its field of dreams by winning its home diamond debut 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

“They’re trying to George Floyd me,” he screams, referencing the Minneapolis man killed by police as one officer briefly has his elbow on or around Anderson’s neck as he is held down on the blacktop. LAPD's repeated tasing of teacher who later died appears excessive, experts say 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Compact the gravel base and install the blacktop at least 1.5 inches thick. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Fernandez went to the same middle school as Hbroka and remembers seeing him on the blacktop going one on one against a taller classmate and not backing down. Column: San Pedro High's Anthony Hrboka takes three-point shooting to new level 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

At the left, a two-lane blacktop highway morphs into an exquisite serpent, winding its way through verdant Eden — a gorgeously idealized California landscape worthy of a classic orange crate label. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

He spent time on his silver blacktop Mustang GT, changing the rims and keeping it running smoothly. Families of Chesapeake Walmart shooting victims mourn their losses 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

It would have enabled the American audience to gain an appreciation of the immense size of the country and how few blacktop roads provide access to the interior of the continent. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This Kanye headline was all wrong 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

These defects can almost always be traced to an inferior gravel base under the blacktop. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

But the Baltimore native also plays with the flair of a blacktop hustler, and he made the Pistons his marks in a 120-99 win. Wizards handle Pistons with a bit of ‘street’ and plenty of polish 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

The sounds of skateboard trucks grinding on metal rails and polyurethane wheels rolling across the blacktop could be heard against the background drone of traffic from the freeway above. How an Underground Skate Park in Los Angeles Became Legal 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Another newer girl, a fifth-grader, said she was so much happier here than at her other school, because she has “a playground and not just a blacktop.” How the pandemic saved one of California's smallest public schools 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

There are six potholes, as deep as 2 inches, where waterproof fabric membrane and crumbled blacktop have been exposed. Repairs arrive for broken lane of I-90 in North Bend, off-limits since January 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Be sure to dust off the sides of the saw-cut blacktop to get as good a bond as possible between the old and new. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Two female Komodo dragons, a hammerhead shark, and a blacktop shark have produced parthenogenic young when the females have been isolated from males. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z

That the nearest blacktop is an hour’s drive away, on a dusty, bumpy, former livestock trail, across a couple of mountain ranges. One visionary artist’s desert dream 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Before the flood, a blacktop road ran through much of the community. After floods, Kentucky struggles with a new challenge: Clean water 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The broken blacktop was to be replaced Tuesday night and early Wednesday by a new asphalt surface. Repairs arrive for broken lane of I-90 in North Bend, off-limits since January 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Whatever you do, never seal new blacktop or a blacktop patch just after you finish. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vick “told us he went under every culvert and bridge, dog paddling, and could feel himself scraping the blacktop and going over rocks.” What We Know About the Victims in the Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Cities, where natural landscapes have been replaced with densely packed buildings, concrete and blacktop, get hotter and retain heat longer than surrounding areas — the “urban heat island” effect, a major concern as the climate warms. London Shows How Unprepared Northern Cities Are for a Warmer World 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Often a road department would patch holes immediately with sticky blacktop known as “cold mix,” but Nielsen said it’s too soft to withstand the pounding at this site. Broken pavement causes an awkward nine-month lane closure on I-90 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

His logo adorned the blacktop as did a quote attributed to him, painted in white along one baseline. Bradley Beal signs five-year max contract with Wizards 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

If you’re installing a new blacktop drive, the best thing you can do is install the gravel base at least one foot wider than the final blacktop drive. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Racist redlining, zoning and spending policies brought more blacktop and pollution and fewer green spaces. It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter if You’re Not Rich. 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

The courts at Banneker Community Center in the Columbia Heights neighborhood badly needed a facelift — their lines were faded, cracks splintered across the blacktop like spiderwebs, and the playing surfaces were uneven. Bradley Beal is rehabbing his wrist and a local basketball court 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

The Cougars made it to the playoffs despite losing their on-campus softball field to construction at the school, forcing the team to practice on the blacktop and play at a nearby park. El Camino Real wins record 18th City Section softball title 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

Under a cloudless February sky, the dry desert air from the nearby Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains heated the blacktop on the two-lane highway, making for perfect road trip conditions on the drive to San Blas. Along Mexico’s Pacific Coast, riding a wave of nostalgia 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

This gives you a 6-inch-wide gravel border around the new blacktop. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

But we rented this old gas station that's literally a minute walk up the dirt road that sits out on a little highway, the two-lane blacktop in this little town. Crime novelist Don Winslow imagines Trump behind bars — but will it happen? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

“There’s less green space and more buildings and cement and blacktops to really absorb and retain the heat,” Basu said. Pregnancy becomes a more vulnerable time with climate change 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

The school, tidy and chirping with kids scampering around a blacktop one recent morning, opened in 1926. As it enters a third year, California’s drought is strangling the farming industry 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Snow was falling, the blacktop was wet, and she had just watched her husband of 29 years take his last breath. Life, death and ‘hugs and prayers’: A story of covid in rural Michigan 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

They were forced to spend four days this week on the blacktop borrowing outdoor shoes to practice. Jaden Hubbard, David Mack help Fairfax return with a vengeance vs. South Pasadena 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

She applies pressure to the shooting victim and blood is seen on the blacktop. NC sees protests after off-duty deputy shoots Black man who police say jumped on moving truck 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

One day “forever ago,” Anderson was walking through his Tarzana neighborhood, passed Portola Middle School and saw all the kids lined up on the blacktop to have their pictures taken. A day in the Valley with Paul Thomas Anderson 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

My apartment looks down over the blacktop playground of an elementary school and out toward the lake and mountains. An educator’s plea: Every employee at Seattle Public Schools should substitute teach 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Deane worried about tainting the style of play that he had cultivated at various blacktops around town. The spirit of 'White Men Can't Jump' lives on at these L.A. courts. See for yourself 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Rucker Park, in her estimation, looked decrepit, with the blacktop cracked and uneven and the bleachers in disarray. A Street Basketball Mecca Gets a Face-Lift 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

He is planning his return to the streets, this time with more serious equipment for cutting out deteriorating blacktop. How to Fill a Pothole 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Now students bring blankets and towels to sit on during their outdoor lunch on the blacktop. Washington teachers take it slow, help kids learn basic social skills during the first weeks of in-person school 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Continuing up to East 138th Street in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, the blacktop temperature rose to 119 under a punishing sun. Why an East Harlem Street Is 31 Degrees Hotter Than Central Park West 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

On his computer screen the property was just a square of grass and weeds next to a narrow ribbon of blacktop in a town he’d never heard of called Blytheville. The strange summer land rush in Peoria’s dying south end

Instead, rain dumps down and bounces from the blacktop. Did They Really Make It Rain Over Dubai? Does It Matter? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

On a recent Sunday morning, about 50 volunteers turned out to clean this steep Seattle oasis, where the blacktop ends and blackberry bramble gives way to a wooded hillside path. Big hearts: There’s room for all the citizen-led responses to Seattle’s homelessness crisis 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Hoops is thriving in their hometown, the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, where about half the country’s population lives and where blacktop and concrete abounds. In an Olympic first, teamwork is the thing for Mongolia 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Housing developments with uniformly black roofs, dark siding and miles of blacktop, which contribute to local high temperatures and overall global climate change. Opinion | Yes, let’s keep the trees 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once the school day started, teachers took turns taking their classes out for recess on the blacktop. LAUSD unequal reopening: Nearly full classrooms on Westside, emptier elsewhere 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

The boys’ soccer team was practicing on the blacktop. On opening day for LAUSD baseball, Anthony Joya of Banning looks the part of ace 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The campaign is being waged in schools and sterile pharmaceutical plants, on the vast blacktop of stadium parking lots and along the sidewalks outside Americans’ homes. ‘Overwhelm the problem’: Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

A village was growing on the blacktop, made up of evacuees and campers, tents and RVs, everyone ready to hurry up and wait. Heat, wind and a cruel twist of nature: inside Oregon's nightmarish wildfire season 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The smell of baking blacktop surrounded us as I waited for his answer in the summer heat. I confronted my daughter's boyfriend – but I was really confronting myself 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Most mornings Sheldon made his way across the motel’s parking lot, his aluminum walker scraping the blacktop, to the bus stop where he caught a ride to Walmart. A pandemic, a motel without power and a potentially terrifying glimpse of Orlando’s future 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Pine Mountain is at least 15 miles from the nearest community and 38 miles from Ojai, more than an hour’s drive on the curvy blacktop of Highway 33. Amid Pine Mountain's ancient trees, a forest 'thinning' project triggers protests 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

The city will also postpone finishing touches on a segment farther west near the National Nordic Museum, where blacktop for a future trail section was installed this spring during a street rebuild. Seattle can’t uproot Ballard railroad tracks to complete Burke-Gilman Trail, judge rules 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Basu attributed this disparity in part to the fact that many urban spaces lack greenery but boast an excess of blacktop, which traps warmth and creates an "urban heat island," she said. Heat and Racism Threaten Birth Outcomes for Women of Color 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The district also alleges the metallic dust released by the facility is composed of lead, arsenic and other hazards and leaves a “purple shimmer” on the blacktop. LAUSD says recycler is endangering Jordan High students with 'sharp metal projectiles' 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Sergine eyed some men gathering by a fence in the opposite corner of the blacktop. The pandemic hit, and this car became home for a family of four. 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

The abundance of blacktop courts like the ones Durant played on, for instance, is one example highlighted in the film. What’s in the water in Prince George’s County? Let Kevin Durant and this new documentary tell you. 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The empty blacktops are drawing in a variety of car enthusiasts, officials say. Roads emptied by coronavirus become magnets to street racers 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

I can still hear the sound of what memory informs me was thousands of shoes shuffling on the blacktop, all headed in one direction. Think this primary season is gut-wrenching? I was there for the trauma of 1968 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

I can still hear the sound of the shuffling of what memory informs me was thousands of shoes shuffling on the blacktop all headed in one direction. The morning after: A next day California remembrance 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

County Road JJ, where the school bus accident occurred, will get new blacktop. The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The business is located several miles from town, down a curvy blacktop road that isn’t heavily trafficked. Barbershop is place to get haircut, shoot off frustration 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

“As you build a great megalopolis … you tend to generate your own heat with shopping centers, housing developments, blacktop,” Patzert said. Column: Thanks to Thunberg, 101-year-old makes a stand against climate change 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Unlike others baptized on the city’s blacktop, Anderson didn’t grow up worshipping at the altar of the Black Mamba. Kobe Bryant's death hits close to home for USC basketball players 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

"It's now a two-lane blacktop and the traffic is coming back harsh... because Trump isn't going to take it." Jesse Watters calls Adam Schiff 'corrupt,' Greg Gutfeld says he is the 'perfect target' for Trump and Republicans 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s not really a parking lot, this cracked blacktop underneath a row of cars. Lakers' star Anthony Davis took root from humble beginnings in Chicago 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

After school on the blacktop of the gated campus, Kamryn’s dedication is on full display. Nipsey Hussle was killed next to a school. His death still haunts students 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Last season, the Los Angeles Clippers had their “L.A. Our Way” slogan, branded themselves as a “blacktop” team and played like they were the more gritty Los Angeles team. Analysis | Wizards mailbag: What would success look like for this team in 2019-20? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Brown used heat radiated from his blacktop driveway to grow fruit not usually seen outside greenhouses. Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Importantly, the Clippers’ beefed-up front office kept its player personnel moves aligned with the “blacktop team” mantra. Analysis | The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

He hasn’t lit much among the lonely little burgs along the blacktops, while Warren launched her campaign in red western Iowa. It's Biden's race to lose in Iowa – but he should beware the rise of Warren | Art Cullen 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It was a scorching summer day in south Los Angeles, the perfect time for a blacktop basketball team to pave its way into the heart of a city. Column: New-age Clippers bring it home as they introduce Kawhi Leonard and Paul George 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

That deal two summers ago helped the Clippers redefine themselves as a “blacktop team” – the kind that would do anything just to keep the next five from taking their place on the court. Column: Steve Ballmer's energy takes center stage at Leonard and George introduction 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

"All the sudden, he just floored it. I ate blacktop. I went down very roughly. I bounced," she told the station. Ohio boy, 8, saves sister from car thief in harrowing escape caught on camera 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

The Lakers were “Showtime,” but the Clippers were a “blacktop team.” Analysis | The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

He could blacktop a lot of driveways by selling those secrets — and he’d probably keep the supplies after finishing the job. The Secrets of Pitching’s Outlaws 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Tumbleweeds danced over the blacktop, and beyond the windshield, except for cars passing, it seemed from another time; copper and scrub for miles, an expanse where a soul would find it hard to hide. Cultural Divide: Frank Ray, a Latino former cop changing the face of country music 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Earlier this week, Flanagan stepped off the blacktop near Highway 247 in Lucerne Valley and crouched down to examine the salt brush scrub that dominates this part of the Mojave Desert. California’s biggest county could severely restrict solar energy projects 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

“I heard the gunshots around the corner,” she told NPR in 2017, “watched him fall on the blacktop. I heard him saying, ‘God, please don’t let me die’ while he was waiting for the ambulance.” Baltimore’s Ceasefire program strives to create peace amid the violence — at least for a weekend 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Wizards need their own version of “blacktop team,” a unifying identity and preferred style of play. Analysis | The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

With that $2,000 I can blacktop my driveway and I can fix up my house. The Secrets of Pitching’s Outlaws 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

And since the weather in London often isn’t suitable for basketball, players who don’t want to slip and slide on blacktops have to drop money to find indoor courts. NBA London games easily sell out, but basketball just isn’t Britain’s cup of tea 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“For a snow event that dropped this much precipitation, for us to look at the traffic screens statewide and see as much blacktop as we’re seeing is really quite remarkable,” he said. Region’s first major snowfall leads to dangerous roads, flight cancellations and power outages 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

But home is also his grandmother and her cooking, his father, his uncle, the blacktop in his neighborhood — the people and places that raised him. James Akinjo wants to return Georgetown basketball to glory, then bring some home to Oakland 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Other days, the expansive lot — part blacktop, part gravel — mostly sits empty in one of the poorest pockets of the city. To Fight Gentrification, a Brooklyn Pastor Plans to Build 2,100 Apartments 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The success spurred another question: How does a team that views itself at home on the blacktop of a playground keep its edge after ascending to the West’s penthouse? Clippers are inconsistent and Mavericks take advantage 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

A: The good news is the blacktop patching material sold in bags and buckets really does work. Analysis | How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Exactly two years after he beat Castillo, on blacktop not far from Mandalay Bay, a distraught Corrales was killed in a motorcycle crash. Mikey Garcia-Robert Easter fight brings to mind one of the best bouts in boxing history 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

They set up four or five plastic tables on the blacktop just out of the path of the pungent smoke that billows out of the roof of their custom-designed truck. Head to this Mexicali-style taco truck in East L.A. for barbacoa-stuffed vampiros and fresh flour tortillas 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

He's a basketball fan who dreams of running the court at the legendary blacktop tournament Rucker Classic in Harlem. 'Uncle Drew' is the surprise comedy of the summer 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

At nearby blacktop courts, teen boys played basketball, their voices echoing over the sounds of chirping birds and bass from a passing car. Residents in troubled Detroit neighborhood want better 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

If you want success using the blacktop sold at home centers and hardware stores, first start by reading the label instructions. Analysis | How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

What may have clinched it is that baby boomers — who typically enjoyed recess three times a day — still remember their blacktop days fondly. Recess makes comeback in public schools 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Prince George’s County’s basketball culture was built on the blacktop games of long ago. ‘It’s a great tradition’: In hoops-crazed Prince George’s County, a title run falls just short 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

A beat-up blacktop road north of the Collin County Courthouse leads to the Blake family’s five-bedroom house built on a slope in the early 1960s. Some farmland in North Texas could face urban expansion 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

One worry is practical: that 70-ton tanks built for the battlefield would chew up Pennsylvania Avenue blacktop. Trump’s ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

I’ve got great detailed step-by-step tips and remarkable videos showing you secret tips for patching blacktop at my website. Analysis | How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

It was there on the blacktop that Miller grew up. His coach told him he needed 30 rebounds for his team to win. So he grabbed 32. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Paramount buried utility lines, threw some dirt over the blacktop of Main Street and peeled away new siding on homes to show unpainted wood. ‘Molly Maguires’ village approaches cinematic milestone 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Behind Federico, the bodyguard posted on the corner dropped into a crouch as three ancient motorbikes accelerated out of the traffic surrounding the park and onto the café’s side street, tires squealing on blacktop. Read an excerpt from Eliot Peper’s new science fiction thriller, Bandwidth 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is a rectangle of blacktop surrounded by busy streets, including the famous Las Vegas Strip. Quandary in Las Vegas: What to Do With the Murder Scenes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The riff unfurls like an engine opening up on blacktop, and never stops motoring. From Free Fallin' to American Girl: five of the greatest Tom Petty songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Maybe it was the backbeat of shoes on blacktop, or the metronome arm-swinging. Perspective | How do you walk from Boston to Maine? One step at a time. 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Think of it as the party laying down the first quarter-mile of blacktop on its road back... The Post-Hillary Democrats 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

They had left Grants, the last town of any size, and Route 66 was just two lanes of blacktop running through sparsely populated Indian reservations in the high desert. Stop making sense! 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

But that didn’t stop him from fixating on a particular park — with its playground and blacktop — in Kalorama Triangle in Northwest Washington and dreaming about its many possibilities, he said. D.C.’s Kalorama Triangle is a nook of serenity tucked into a bustling city 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

You can use this same epoxy to repair cracks in blacktop, disguising the compound with small rocks and sand you press into the fresh epoxy. A top-to-bottom list of what to check outside your home post winter 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

But that’s in life, not in drama, where venturing forth on the great American blacktop is often a bonding experience and an everyday hero’s journey. Review: ‘26 Miles’ brings estranged mom, teen closer as they hit the road 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

One of the Senator’s aides had set up a lectern on the blacktop, and a few reporters were stationed in front of it, but most of those assembled lived on the block, in similar-looking houses. Can Chuck Schumer Check Donald Trump? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

To prevent damage to sewer covers and the street, the snowplows often don’t clean down to the blacktop. New York Today: Great Excavations 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Abulhassan greeted parents and a few old friends, and when he eventually made his way outside, he saw the sophomore standing on the blacktop. Meet Osama. To his players, he’s ‘Coach Oss.’ These days, should he be ‘Steve’? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Look for damage to any concrete or blacktop pavement, sidewalks and patios. A top-to-bottom list of what to check outside your home post winter 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

If road crews did this same thing, pothole repairs in blacktop would last much longer. How to fix crumbling concrete 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Or that he grew up learning the game from playing against 30-somethings at fitness clubs and on blacktops. On high schools: Late bloomer KZ Okpala of Esperanza has a rosy future 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

He passed out stickers by the hundreds and put up Trump signs outside the restaurant, “right in the blacktop”. Can Trump really make America great again? 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

These thin precast products must be installed much in the same way you’d install an asphalt or blacktop driveway. Porous driveways offer environmentally friendly, back-to-the-future approach to addressing runoff 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

There is a ½-mile stretch of blacktop separating Stephen Levin and the mailbox of his Stowe, Vt., home. Driveways That Go the Extra Mile 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Luke Walton has always been one to pass the ball, even in his days on the blacktop as an 8-year-old at St. Vincent de Paul School. Luke Walton takes over as the Los Angeles Lakers' new coach 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

A few months ago, Sheron said, he recalled players scattering in fear when a gun fell from someone’s backpack onto the blacktop. Brooklyn Bridge Park Courtside Fights Put Neighbors on Edge 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month, the entire student body at Haywood Elementary lined the blacktop driveway outside the school holding signs with enthusiastic messages about reading and books. Books on bikes adds to Big Payback’s story in Nashville 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

And yes, there are lots of financial needs at schools, from books to clean bathrooms to fixing blacktops with cracks. Football and baseball starter looks for a place on a college field 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

That involves scraping the old roadway and putting a new layer of blacktop over it. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Highway 395, a two-lane blacktop that winds into the forested Blue Mountains, where visibility drops dramatically, and where there’s no one around. 'We are not leaving': The final days of an Oregon occupier 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

She started Big Foot’s engine, drove down the blacktop driveway and turned right, heading south onto Soda Bay Road and a life as a tumbleweed on wheels. Too poor to retire and too young to die 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Passers-by walked in the street, cleared in points by snowplows down to bare blacktop, rather than try the thickly covered sidewalk. Battered by East Coast Snowstorm, Cities Face Digging Out 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Several roads need to be blacktopped and curbs and flagpoles need to be replaced. Woods historic district, cemetery may join national registry 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

But on 17 November, as a crew installed the footing for a new exterior wall, a construction worker found something unexpected while tearing up the parking lot’s blacktop: part of a human skull. The bodies at Baldwin Hall: UGA uncovers 27 graves during construction project 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The mangled bodies of Islamic State fighters still lay last week on the tree-lined roads in the military compound, sprawled across the blacktop after being hit from the air. Iraqi armed forces see chance for redemption as they close in on Ramadi 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Bryant thought back to what he learned in the structure of the gym and grime of the city blacktop. Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour starts in Philadelphia, where it all began 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The self-supported endeavor demands that the individual walk unassisted, without emotional support on the trail or physical support at blacktop intersections and towns. On the Longest Hiking Trails, a Woman Finds Equal Footing 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The Wabash Valley Community Foundation and Smithville Telephone Co. have donated money in the past couple years for repairs and blacktopping at the cemetery. Woods historic district, cemetery may join national registry 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

If we’re on the blacktop, it’s always a rivalry with Minnesota. Lynx, Mercury renew rivalry in Western Conference finals 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

What a few months ago was barren blacktop has burst with color and greenery. A farm grows in Chinatown in Philadelphia 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z

Money for the school and for the church - a new roof and new windows and new carpeting and a new piano, repairs to the school bus and blacktop for the parking lot. Proceeds from ‘Thrift Store Angels’ benefit community 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

Worse, the pavement at the site is blacktop, not concrete, further inhibiting driver vision. Rare fallen trees led to I-90 tragedy near Lookout Pass 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

At Lovell Canyon road we turned off, the blacktop becoming a dusty trail we followed for six miles until we reached our destination - the Def Con shoot. A journey into Def Con country - BBC News 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

Prince was raised in the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene and cultivated her game on nearby blacktop courts like so many Brooklyn guards before her. Epiphanny Prince’s Arrival Raises Liberty’s Hopes of Returning to W.N.B.A. Playoffs 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Stephenson, who developed his edge as a child on the blacktops of his native Brooklyn, N.Y., said he would bring defensive tenacity in addition to a resolve the Clippers lacked. Lance Stephenson says it's 'passion,' not angst, he'll bring to Clippers 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. Tribute for a Roller Hockey Warrior Who Broke the Color Barrier 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Fans were given the opportunity to vote for the school’s next court this past season and one of the three options was Kampe’s “blacktop” court. Oakland unveils new ‘blacktop’ basketball court 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

“I turned onto a blacktop road, not to get close, just so I could see it through the windshield,” Schroeder said. Mankato-area weather spotters are eyes, ears in emergencies 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

At night, an older driver may squint to see the edge of white road stripes on blacktop. Focusing the Brain on Better Vision 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Run in the shade, when possible, and avoid hot blacktop, asphalt, or sand, which can burn dogs’ paws. Running With Your Dog: 17 Dos and Don'ts 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The University of Phoenix Stadium looked like a giant hubcap in the middle of a parking lot, the paved-over blacktop barely distinguishable from the flat wasteland fields surrounding Glendale. Super Bowl XLIX: Tom Brady, New England’s win is worth the price of admission 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Not long after, copies of the report showed up tacked to telephone poles and displayed in a common area known as the blacktop in Guest’s Westport neighborhood. Dozens in D.C., Maryland paid the ultimate price for cooperating with police 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

We drove with the windows down, swaying over the blacktop, the air beating around us. On the Open Road, Signs of a Changing Cuba 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

After they are incapacitated, officers should carry them off the blacktop and place them under arrest. Ferguson Protesters Blocking Highways Are Lawbreakers 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

They are planning to install rain barrels, build rain gardens, plant trees and, perhaps, replace their blacktop with permeable pavement. Churches receive stormwater fee discounts by starting ‘green’ ministries, sermons

The truck’s suspension soaks up urban bumps and potholes like bread in gravy, only becoming slightly unnerved over extended patches of broken blacktop. GMC Yukon Review: Why General Motors Owns The Big SUV Market 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

A seemingly unending stream of teenagers stood outside on the blacktop, many clad in black and gray. Burying Young Players Isn’t Part of the Game 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Over time people started to refer to any sort of asphalt or blacktop as tarmac. SAPVoice: Blue Juice, Tarmac, and Other Air Travel Slang 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

He is still ranting and steps up onto a slightly elevated blacktop across the sidewalk from where the cops are standing, guns drawn. HURT: When officer safety is job No. 1, the public suffers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The heat, reaching 100 degrees in the middle of the day, was oppressive on the exposed blacktop. Ferguson looks to turn unrest into action 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Rooftops were deserts of sticky blacktop, the last places to which any sane New Yorker would retreat. Manhattan’s Secret Pools and Gardens 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Star recently took a trip from Aurora to West Plains, a distance of 134 miles over blacktops and gravel roads, stopping to talk to people in small towns and farms along the way. Recent shootings heap new attention on Ozarks 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The game is played on a smooth, hard surface, usually concrete, blacktop or a gymnasium floor. A Funny Name, a Serious Sport. Pickleball, Anyone? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The only sound was the hum of big rigs bouncing off the blacktop. Motel operator is driven to keep Route 66 culture alive and kicking 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z

The clatter of horseshoes on blacktop is already part of the ambience outside Mercedes House. The Appraisal: Next Residents of a Luxury Building: Police Horses 2014-04-14T18:30:56Z

Damon Baehrel is making dinner out of the scrub brush next to his blacktop driveway. Damon Baehrel, Chef of Most Exclusive Restaurant in the U.S., Opens Up 2013-12-12T20:40:19Z

He also warned people to expect “white roads” in the morning because salt was only minimally effective at temperatures this low and said it was impossible to clear streets to the blacktop by plowing alone. East Coast Storm Brings Snow and Disruptions to the New York Region 2014-01-22T06:41:10Z

The current gen buyers will receive 10,000 virtual currency, extra content for the new Path to Greatness mode, a LeBron signature skill for My Player and LeBron in the blacktop mode. LeBron James Crowned King Of 2K Sports NBA 2K14 As Cover Athlete 2013-06-07T01:00:00Z

Basketball is the sport that can be practiced two-on-two, even solo, on ubiquitous blacktops or in gymnasiums. Roots in the Game Grow Strong in Georgia 2013-06-03T01:43:35Z

Carts punish grass, which led to the laying of unsightly ribbons of blacktop to accommodate them. On Par: Long Island Club Reintroduces a Golf Artifact, the Caddie 2013-06-03T01:10:28Z

The towers clutched around J. R.’s high-rise were each controlled by a different gang, and the blacktop between them was known as the killing fields. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z

A new documentary, "Doin' it in the Park," is a loving ode to the blacktop world of New York City pick-up. Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball 2013-05-18T14:07:09Z

At recess, school children play pickup, which is made easy because school officials paint soccer lines on blacktops. Goal: ‘The Game That Never Ends’ 2013-05-04T16:21:08Z

But then we turned onto the unmarked blacktop road that led out to Chris and Anneliese’s and saw the car there, a silver Toyota, engine running, stopped in our lane and facing the wrong direction. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z

Falls to the ground account for nearly 70 percent of playground injuries, according to the NPPS, so avoid playsets atop concrete, asphalt, grass, blacktop and packed dirt or rocks. Playground Safety: Fun Without the Injuries 2013-04-09T13:30:00Z

Obviously, the stakes of today's multi-billion dollar N.B.A. are far too high for us to naively expect such blacktop honor to carry the day. Off the Dribble: When it Comes to Calling Fouls, N.B.A. Should Look to the Playground 2012-09-14T17:55:24Z

I am convinced that some of the city’s truths, if not all of them, are boiled down on its basketball blacktops. A New Arrival Explores New York Through Pickup Basketball 2012-07-11T20:12:43Z

The traffic backups on the two-lane blacktop roads that feed into town start earlier than most of the farmers nearby are awake. A jury for Jerry: can 12 unbiased jurors be found for the Sandusky trial? 2012-06-05T19:20:00Z

She strained to look around me to where the girl was still standing on the blacktop, as if she’d been fixed in place. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z

Rich in history, the court had since been paved, and rumor had it that Robertson would play on the blacktop until the Lockefield residents ran him off at 1 a.m. Recalling Indianapolis Pickup Games Worth the Wait 2012-04-04T00:21:23Z

"We go outside on the blacktop," he said, then laughed. 'Some things never cease to amaze me ...' 2012-03-25T10:02:08Z

Unlike most players, concerned about cushioning and support, Young refuses to wear orthopedic insoles in his sneakers, hoping to always generate the feeling he had when he used to play pickup on the blacktop. Wizards can?t repeat magic in Los Angeles 2012-02-16T13:20:06Z

So there you are cruising down a two-lane blacktop in a tiny town at 80 miles per hour in these black S.U.V.’s. The Caucus: For Romney, Secret Service Detail Poses Challenges on the Campaign Trail 2012-02-03T15:27:20Z

When he wasn’t playing organized basketball, he said he was on that well-known blacktop, often competing against older, stronger players. Georgetown freshman Jabril Trawick ?is not going to get pushed around? 2012-01-04T01:25:24Z

At Cesar Chavez Elementary School, physical education lessons, taught by classroom teachers, are held on a fenced-in blacktop lot below a huge, colorful mural of the school’s namesake. The Bay Citizen: Affluent Children Are More Physically Fit Than Poor Ones 2011-12-24T23:05:54Z

Beside Heath, a kid in construction boots dribbled along the uneven blacktop, waiting for the next game to begin. Locked-Out N.B.A. Stars Find a Home in Philadelphia Arena 2011-09-26T02:19:05Z

“With all this pavement, all this blacktop, these tar roofs, it makes for a big oven,” Mr. Booker said. Feeling the Heat? It?s Worse in Newark 2011-07-22T01:48:16Z

The main blacktop road to Cooper is blocked by floodwater, but a gravel road to the plant is still open about five miles south of town. Nuclear regulator visits second Nebraska plant on Missouri 2011-06-27T20:38:38Z

The 150-acre Toyota parking lot in Long Beach, Calif., where imported cars usually sit in long white rows, is as empty as the blacktop around a football stadium in springtime. Economix: Cars as a Harbinger of an Upturn 2011-06-24T10:00:46Z

THE yellow Ferrari Italia twists out of a steep curve and rockets down the ribbon of blacktop. ?Sex on Wheels?? Now Ferrari Has ?Room for Groceries,? Too 2011-05-14T17:07:02Z

Bud reached the blacktop road and waited for the bus to take him to the Haleyville Consolidated School, where he was to enter the eighth grade. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z

His antics were emulated by budding shooters on blacktops all across the country, as Miller’s rise to prominence suddenly made it cool to scurry to the 3-point line and run circles around opponents. Off the Dribble: Weighing Reggie Miller's Hall of Fame Credentials 2011-02-20T19:43:55Z

Most of the streets have blacktop showing, but the intersections and cross walk areas are still a mess. City Room: It's 7 A.M. Is Your Street Plowed? 2010-12-30T15:16:48Z

Some hard-core fans dressed in rain suits and clutching umbrellas passed the screen without looking as they strained against the steep blacktop incline that sweeps down from the old clubhouse. Woods Addresses the News Media in Wet Wales 2010-09-28T21:18:00Z

Rather than a blacktop, we played on dirt that had been packed hard, that Southern clay. In Basketball, Danger of Head Trauma 2010-09-14T10:51:00Z

Take Dave Petrovits, who owns a company that does site development and blacktopping and who serves on the executive committee of the county Republican Party. Our Towns: For G.O.P., a County in Transition 2010-09-16T06:50:00Z

And now we’ve finally got that car up on the blacktop there, about to drive, and they say they want the keys back. September Senate Debate Expected on Extending Tax Cuts for Rich 2010-08-05T02:57:00Z

Alongside railroad tracks, in the cracked blacktops of abandoned lots, in dark, stagnant alleys. Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the much reviled tree of heaven 2010-06-14T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Manderson’s $35,000 motorized wheelchair rolls over aging blacktop and concrete, she feels every bump and crack in her bones; each sidewalk seam and tree root jolts a nerve. A Young Disabled Teacher Navigates a Vertical City 2010-05-01T17:49:00Z

I don't miss the damage metal spikes did but they sure sounded cool when you walked on concrete or blacktop. Questions and answers by Craig Smith 2010-04-28T04:16:00Z

A. I mean, if you’re going to play basketball on the streets and on the blacktops, trash talking is a part of the game. 2010-01-30T03:11:00Z

Zircon took a blacktop road to the west, close to the base of the mountain. The Flaming Mountain

Then the blacktop road curved out into the desert to the great radio telescope. The Egyptian Cat Mystery

On the Golp Terrace, as the blacktop island was called, everyone and everything conformed—or else. A Knyght Ther Was

Rounding a curve in a narrow, blacktop road, he saw the home behind a grove of trees. Occasion for Disaster

The steps had been removed and I found myself hanging over the road, sliding headfirst into it, clanging my head off the blacktop with a thump that rang my ears like a gong. Little Brother

At the end of the blacktop, he and Scotty got out and examined the road surface. The Flaming Mountain

He turned off the blacktop and started down the rutted path. Lease to Doomsday

They sat on a wooden porch and looked across the humpy patched blacktop road to a steep hillside, densely green and silent. Joe Burke's Last Stand

The second day I was on a blacktop road and just coming out of a wooded� stretch where I could see the line up the straight open road ahead.� The Biography of a Rabbit

Willow waved and then bumped down to the blacktop road where she picked up speed and breezed downhill into town, her hair fluttering nicely behind her. Joe Burke's Last Stand

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例句	blacktop The late-day Bakersfield sun beats down, bouncing off from the cars and the blacktop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Booker had an enormous blacktop where they had recess and PE and lunch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I knew they really wanted to go out to the blacktop, and I tried to tell them they didn’t have to stay indoors just because I was being punished. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I pulled forward, and the wheels rolled easily over the thick grass of the yard and onto the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It’s not that I hate doing anything active, but in elementary school, PE meant going out on the blacktop in your regular clothes and playing softball or capture the flag. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z At times hurt and anger radiated from them like heat rising from Idaho blacktop in the sun. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Stokely spit on the blacktop, stood up, and extended his long arm to help me up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Have you thought about us going outside? The school rule says we can’t go out in the snow. We can go out on the blacktop, but it’s too crowded and there’s nothing to do.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Even though it’s hot as sin and steam’s already rising off the blacktop, kids are throwing balls, kicking cans, skipping rope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z What had happened at the lockers, on the bus, on the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He stepped directly from the crumbling blacktopped driveway out into the street. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Figures half mired in the blacktop, clutching themselves, mouths howling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I walk around the front of his car, open the passenger door, and sit, keeping one foot out on the blacktop. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A short sidewalk led over to the blacktopped driveway, and both the sidewalk and the blacktop were just as crumbly as the porch, with large patches of rocks and dirt showing through. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The second shot missed, hit the blacktop a foot behind me and flew away humming like a bee. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z One time Max and I joined a game called untag on the blacktop—not elementary school tag, but a whole different version, with crazy-complicated rules. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And given the present setting—a dark, treacherous bend of blacktop—it was pretty easy to come up with something good. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I scooped up a handful of pebbles and started laying them out on the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I hope we get in before this rain starts,” Mom muttered as we turned at Seagull Way into the enormous blacktopped parking lot of the campus. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He held it down close to the blacktop, then up high in the air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z My head cracked against the icy blacktop, and I felt something solid and cold pinning me to the ground. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She was still clutching my arm as she led us out the lunchroom door onto the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Wardak was out on the blacktop, so she couldn’t yell at me for being in the hallway. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But even when we weren’t together on the blacktop, or inside the building,I always knew Omi had an eye out for me—paying attention in her own quiet way. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They ran to their respective buses, the soles of their sneakers slapping on the blacktop, calling “One-two-three!” and “Zoot!” behind them. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z And on the blacktop yesterday at lunch, he’d acted as if he hadn’t even noticed anything. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I cross the blacktop, squinting and glancing around myself. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Anyway, this van kept driving, right off the blacktop and over the grass toward our field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When lunchtime came, I got a hummus-on-pita and a chocolate chip cookie, went out to the blacktop, and looked around. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z While Max distracted her inside the cafeteria, Zara and I would run out to the blacktop and make a giant O out of pebbles. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I can’t even describe how mad I felt, leaving the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Across the wide blacktopped, slushy street, those two older boys had caught sight of me again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Stokely sat down on the blacktop, stretching his long legs out in front of him. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z So I needed to get off the blacktop now. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the strip of blacktop leading to the Rolland fairgrounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z On the blacktop, nobody wanted to play kickball. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z She turned and ran off the blacktop, to a quiet spot behind the jungle gym. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The blacktop twisted through a wooded area like a river and soon the sound of the highway had faded away behind them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran out of money on the way, so I got off here and found a job laying blacktop for a few days, trying to earn enough for another bus ticket. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I did not think he could see me, since I had stepped a way off the blacktop to look at the pond; Faro was sitting still in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But after a few minutes of nonstop running across the blacktop in a sort of figure eight, my lungs were burning and I had a sharp cramp in my side. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I slammed my locker door and flew down the hall, outdoors to the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Faro seemed to feel the same way—at least he did not scurry around and sniff, but just plodded along quietly, his toenails clicking on the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Past the wavering band of blacktop, the outline of our neighbors house ran against the sky like watery paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The blacktop underneath had buckled in the heat and then set back again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z With the exception of a few abandoned cars and green Dumpsters, the enormous blacktop parking lot was empty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And when she felt ready, they walked together back to the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z After we were done eating, the three of us usually went outside to the blacktop. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She twisted the toe of her sneaker into the blacktop pavement. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z While Sosie digested the shock of it, Fawnda flipped the notebook closed, placed it back in the purse, and stared out at the kids racing around screaming on the blacktop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The word conjures up drive-ins, tract homes, waves of heat rising from the blacktop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When they got to the blacktop they had to turn back along the road to fetch the cart but it was less than a mile. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I walked once around the perimeter of the blacktop, nibbling the chips off the cookie, counting the length and width by the number of times my sneakers touched the asphalt. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The kind when the streets seem to be melting—the blacktop actually sticks to my shoes as I’m walking back to my pad from dropping the bets off to Archie. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s just the sound of the Dreidel devouring the blacktop as she speeds downhill. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Neither of us was allowed on the blacktop the whole rest of the week. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I asked when my mom picked me up on the blacktop after school that day. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “Lord, that girl’s hot as Tunica blacktop,” Stuart says under his breath and I suppose that’s when I just stop caring what happens. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There’s a big blacktop area with basketball hoops and hopscotch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Omi had followed Max off the blacktop, maybe to be loyal to Max, maybe to avoid watching things get weird between Zara and me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She never came out to the blacktop either. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved now around the blacktop, taking shots, grabbing my own rebounds, moving to another spot. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z My eyes would narrow until all I could see was the blacktop racing under me, and I’d hold on to the rage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We stared out atSnapfinger Cemetery, and the blacktopped Rural Route 2 that stretched out to bigger roads across all of Mississippi and beyond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I wait for Ellen in front of her boyfriend’s Jeep as the sun pushes my feet further into the hot blacktop of the school parking lot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Still, a bunch of kids were out on the blacktop, doing blacktop things. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They set off down the blacktop in opposite directions. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Once, when the two of us were the first out on the blacktop, I even tried apologizing for not telling her about the scorecard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The crew laid heavy tarps over the cracked blacktop yard. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He did not stay on the blacktop but went along the edge, the side toward Burden Creek, walking where there were trees and bushes to hide him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It had been last Wednesday, and they were on the blacktop at school. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z There were thousands of parked automobiles out there, twinkling on a vast lake of blacktop. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam told the kids at school all about it on the blacktop the next day. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z We ran over to the far edge of the blacktop, where a strip of pebbles divided the ground into School and Not-School. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The tractor had come out of the trees and ran in plain view down the blacktop, covering the last half mile to the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The chaplain did not dare raise his eyes until the closed car had lurched from the area and the speeding wheels were whining on the bumpy blacktop road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Booker had an enormous blacktop where they had recess and PE and lunch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z On the blacktop, kids got tired of talking about the volcano. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He was on the blacktop, and was coming my way at top speed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We step out onto the blacktop, feel the heat cover us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In half an hour they reached a blacktop road on the edge of a town, and the raven flew back into the wood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I tried to look at Max, but he’d turned away, watching something or someone across the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Heading south from the Clare Valley, the two-lane blacktop is flanked by fields of barley and wheat tall enough to catch the wind in waves, before breaking on lonely gumtrees. The epicurean way: a four-day road trip around South Australia's wine regions 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z So she challenged an entire class of 12-year-olds to name all the capitals on the map painted on the playground blacktop — and invited a local newspaper reporter to watch. The coolest, weirdest Internet community you’ll never be able to join From Giresun I drove west, diverting right after Ordu from the main highway to a sinuous stretch of two-lane blacktop marked by small harbors clogged with fishing trawlers. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z A baby turtle crawling down a blacktop resulted in a mother-daughter exchange in "Low Tide." The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z I grew up on the blacktop — where we teens and preteens pounded basketballs from sunup till the lights at the park went dark. The peanut butter oatmeal that cures teenage hunger 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Water that had surged across the blacktop deposited significant sandbars. It’s the Cool Season in Death Valley 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The landscape was gorgeous and thrilling, long stretches of the blacktop paralleling buttes that were striated purple and pink. \| Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z The sound rips clear across the parking lot, where six cops on horseback patrol the blacktop, expecting the worst. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z An open blacktop on the site beckoned even more players, who need only a portable net and chalk or tape to make a court. Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The blacktop plunged into the village of Mexican Hat as the desert morning stretched taut across the sky. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z The music itself is propulsive, rolling, repetitive in deliberate ways, and insomuch as it conjures a single image it’s of smooth and endless blacktop, receding in a rearview mirror. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The same blacktopped laboratory tables are there, but now they are newly made and turned into proper desks. The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around 2012-12-05T22:44:46Z “A full moon rising on a cloudy night casts an eerie glow on a Godforsaken blacktop highway winding its way along the upper coast of Maine.” Review: Stranded. And Don’t Expect Help From Those Animals. 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z A few, like squirrels on two-lane blacktop, will lose all composure and become roadkill. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z I then drove the familiar majestic winding blacktop roads towards Borgarnes on the west coast, across the bridge spanning the Borgarfjörður fjord, and was home. From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essay 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z So hot the blacktop stuck to his sneakers, Brian told me that afternoon before he left for work. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z Other points of uncertainty include how to bring more shade to the stretch of sun-baked blacktop next to Circus Circus and how to boost food offerings to meet Las Vegas' high standards. Bruno Mars closes out Rock in Rio festival with a bang 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Rolling Down the Road for Lobster Foraging hits the blacktop in a new lobster-themed bicycle crawl from the White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, Me. In Transit Blog: Rolling Down the Road for Lobster 2013-08-28T18:55:00Z She views life experience as an “infinite blacktop of things you’d regret not knowing later” and her future as “a long series of empty moments that took me down a … highway to nowhere in particular.” Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s a warm spring morning in Washington, and once again the blacktop at the White House is starting to heat up. Driveway drive-bys: With formal briefings long gone, Trump’s aides meet the press (briefly) in an unusual spot 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z I arrived at my tour group’s rustic meeting spot — a Food Lion parking lot — and was surprised to find the blacktop void of humanity. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A dusty Volvo wagon and the unfurling two-lane blacktops of rural Oklahoma get just about equal screen time in this unique road movie that is often touching and heartfelt, yet remains a fundamentally hollow experience. 'Barking Water': A couple reconnect on their final road trip together 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z But too few take the blacktop further than a couple hours from home. Amazing Motorcycle Trips 2010-12-02T20:35:00Z He’s back home in one of the two Kentuckys — “east and west, dirt and blacktop” — and you can guess which. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Or if I had, they were on my periphery, some fenced-off blacktop in a bigger green park, loud and packed with brats in the day, or seedy and dark with shadows at night. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z My toy foam surfboard clip-clopping against my knees, towel scratching my neck, rubber slippers squeaking on steamy blacktop. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z It’s Sunday so old heads like me throw on Under Armour mixed with Nike Dry Fit and try to blend in with the high schoolers on the blacktop ⎯ the up-and-coming stars. My neighborhood revolution, one letter at a time 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z On warm summer afternoons in the 1960s, their rich, sweet aroma wafted out to the driveway, where I’d be playing stickball or drawing hopscotch courts with chalk on the hot blacktop. For my dad, cooking started with olive oil, garlic, parsley — and love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The chains are pressed into the blacktop, as if some hapless squirrel or armadillo squashed by a speeding car. Bling with a cheeky ring in Luis Gispert's 'Aqua Regia' exhibition 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Is it possible to experience a national park’s wildness in the time usually allotted for a blacktop tour? Joshua Tree National Park: Into the wild, hours from L.A. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Unrushed, melancholic, worldly and subline, this is a timeless rock album designed to be played this summer racing across a shimmering blacktop with the top down. New this week: ‘Zola,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ and a Felicity Jones film 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z And a weathered stretch of blacktop provided by a Methodist church became her yard, her neighborhood and her safe place. In Kirkland and across U.S., working people are living out of their cars 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The rains ripped out blacktop and washed out dirt roads to cut off some areas while inundating communities in southern Vermont. Vermont’s flood-wracked capital city ponders a rebuild with one eye on climate change 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z By the time I looked over, the hiker had already reached the blacktop and scrunched his lean frame beneath a metal informational sign — the overlook’s only spot of shade. I searched hell on Earth for a story. What I found will haunt me forever 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Why would he allow a cluttered 24-mile stretch of blacktop determine the path of his team’s championship journey? Plaschke: Arte Moreno and the Angels would never trade Ohtani to the Dodgers? Why not? 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Do you have sunken and cracked places in your blacktop driveway? What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Because horsetail even comes up through blacktop, imagine how quickly it works its way through cardboard. Ciscoe Morris IDs a magically appearing (and ridiculously stinky) plant 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Most days after class, my friends and I would ride our bikes around the expansive blacktop directly next to our school’s playground. Student Voices: Better bike parking could remove roadblocks for student cyclists 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Coach Ruben Torres was tasked with fielding a competitive program in the upper divisions of the City Section that had to practice taking grounders on blacktops and grass. Garfield celebrates its field of dreams by winning its home diamond debut 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z “They’re trying to George Floyd me,” he screams, referencing the Minneapolis man killed by police as one officer briefly has his elbow on or around Anderson’s neck as he is held down on the blacktop. LAPD's repeated tasing of teacher who later died appears excessive, experts say 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Compact the gravel base and install the blacktop at least 1.5 inches thick. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Fernandez went to the same middle school as Hbroka and remembers seeing him on the blacktop going one on one against a taller classmate and not backing down. Column: San Pedro High's Anthony Hrboka takes three-point shooting to new level 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z At the left, a two-lane blacktop highway morphs into an exquisite serpent, winding its way through verdant Eden — a gorgeously idealized California landscape worthy of a classic orange crate label. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z He spent time on his silver blacktop Mustang GT, changing the rims and keeping it running smoothly. Families of Chesapeake Walmart shooting victims mourn their losses 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It would have enabled the American audience to gain an appreciation of the immense size of the country and how few blacktop roads provide access to the interior of the continent. Opinion \| Readers critique The Post: This Kanye headline was all wrong 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z These defects can almost always be traced to an inferior gravel base under the blacktop. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But the Baltimore native also plays with the flair of a blacktop hustler, and he made the Pistons his marks in a 120-99 win. Wizards handle Pistons with a bit of ‘street’ and plenty of polish 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The sounds of skateboard trucks grinding on metal rails and polyurethane wheels rolling across the blacktop could be heard against the background drone of traffic from the freeway above. How an Underground Skate Park in Los Angeles Became Legal 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Another newer girl, a fifth-grader, said she was so much happier here than at her other school, because she has “a playground and not just a blacktop.” How the pandemic saved one of California's smallest public schools 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z There are six potholes, as deep as 2 inches, where waterproof fabric membrane and crumbled blacktop have been exposed. Repairs arrive for broken lane of I-90 in North Bend, off-limits since January 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Be sure to dust off the sides of the saw-cut blacktop to get as good a bond as possible between the old and new. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Two female Komodo dragons, a hammerhead shark, and a blacktop shark have produced parthenogenic young when the females have been isolated from males. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z That the nearest blacktop is an hour’s drive away, on a dusty, bumpy, former livestock trail, across a couple of mountain ranges. One visionary artist’s desert dream 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Before the flood, a blacktop road ran through much of the community. After floods, Kentucky struggles with a new challenge: Clean water 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The broken blacktop was to be replaced Tuesday night and early Wednesday by a new asphalt surface. Repairs arrive for broken lane of I-90 in North Bend, off-limits since January 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Whatever you do, never seal new blacktop or a blacktop patch just after you finish. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Vick “told us he went under every culvert and bridge, dog paddling, and could feel himself scraping the blacktop and going over rocks.” What We Know About the Victims in the Kentucky Flooding 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Cities, where natural landscapes have been replaced with densely packed buildings, concrete and blacktop, get hotter and retain heat longer than surrounding areas — the “urban heat island” effect, a major concern as the climate warms. London Shows How Unprepared Northern Cities Are for a Warmer World 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Often a road department would patch holes immediately with sticky blacktop known as “cold mix,” but Nielsen said it’s too soft to withstand the pounding at this site. Broken pavement causes an awkward nine-month lane closure on I-90 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z His logo adorned the blacktop as did a quote attributed to him, painted in white along one baseline. Bradley Beal signs five-year max contract with Wizards 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z If you’re installing a new blacktop drive, the best thing you can do is install the gravel base at least one foot wider than the final blacktop drive. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Racist redlining, zoning and spending policies brought more blacktop and pollution and fewer green spaces. It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter if You’re Not Rich. 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z The courts at Banneker Community Center in the Columbia Heights neighborhood badly needed a facelift — their lines were faded, cracks splintered across the blacktop like spiderwebs, and the playing surfaces were uneven. Bradley Beal is rehabbing his wrist and a local basketball court 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The Cougars made it to the playoffs despite losing their on-campus softball field to construction at the school, forcing the team to practice on the blacktop and play at a nearby park. El Camino Real wins record 18th City Section softball title 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Under a cloudless February sky, the dry desert air from the nearby Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains heated the blacktop on the two-lane highway, making for perfect road trip conditions on the drive to San Blas. Along Mexico’s Pacific Coast, riding a wave of nostalgia 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z This gives you a 6-inch-wide gravel border around the new blacktop. What you need to know about patching blacktop driveways, holes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But we rented this old gas station that's literally a minute walk up the dirt road that sits out on a little highway, the two-lane blacktop in this little town. Crime novelist Don Winslow imagines Trump behind bars — but will it happen? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “There’s less green space and more buildings and cement and blacktops to really absorb and retain the heat,” Basu said. Pregnancy becomes a more vulnerable time with climate change 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The school, tidy and chirping with kids scampering around a blacktop one recent morning, opened in 1926. As it enters a third year, California’s drought is strangling the farming industry 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Snow was falling, the blacktop was wet, and she had just watched her husband of 29 years take his last breath. Life, death and ‘hugs and prayers’: A story of covid in rural Michigan 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z They were forced to spend four days this week on the blacktop borrowing outdoor shoes to practice. Jaden Hubbard, David Mack help Fairfax return with a vengeance vs. South Pasadena 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z She applies pressure to the shooting victim and blood is seen on the blacktop. NC sees protests after off-duty deputy shoots Black man who police say jumped on moving truck 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z One day “forever ago,” Anderson was walking through his Tarzana neighborhood, passed Portola Middle School and saw all the kids lined up on the blacktop to have their pictures taken. A day in the Valley with Paul Thomas Anderson 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z My apartment looks down over the blacktop playground of an elementary school and out toward the lake and mountains. An educator’s plea: Every employee at Seattle Public Schools should substitute teach 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Deane worried about tainting the style of play that he had cultivated at various blacktops around town. The spirit of 'White Men Can't Jump' lives on at these L.A. courts. See for yourself 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Rucker Park, in her estimation, looked decrepit, with the blacktop cracked and uneven and the bleachers in disarray. A Street Basketball Mecca Gets a Face-Lift 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z He is planning his return to the streets, this time with more serious equipment for cutting out deteriorating blacktop. How to Fill a Pothole 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Now students bring blankets and towels to sit on during their outdoor lunch on the blacktop. Washington teachers take it slow, help kids learn basic social skills during the first weeks of in-person school 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Continuing up to East 138th Street in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, the blacktop temperature rose to 119 under a punishing sun. Why an East Harlem Street Is 31 Degrees Hotter Than Central Park West 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z On his computer screen the property was just a square of grass and weeds next to a narrow ribbon of blacktop in a town he’d never heard of called Blytheville. The strange summer land rush in Peoria’s dying south end Instead, rain dumps down and bounces from the blacktop. Did They Really Make It Rain Over Dubai? Does It Matter? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z On a recent Sunday morning, about 50 volunteers turned out to clean this steep Seattle oasis, where the blacktop ends and blackberry bramble gives way to a wooded hillside path. Big hearts: There’s room for all the citizen-led responses to Seattle’s homelessness crisis 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Hoops is thriving in their hometown, the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, where about half the country’s population lives and where blacktop and concrete abounds. In an Olympic first, teamwork is the thing for Mongolia 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Housing developments with uniformly black roofs, dark siding and miles of blacktop, which contribute to local high temperatures and overall global climate change. Opinion \| Yes, let’s keep the trees 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Once the school day started, teachers took turns taking their classes out for recess on the blacktop. LAUSD unequal reopening: Nearly full classrooms on Westside, emptier elsewhere 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The boys’ soccer team was practicing on the blacktop. On opening day for LAUSD baseball, Anthony Joya of Banning looks the part of ace 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The campaign is being waged in schools and sterile pharmaceutical plants, on the vast blacktop of stadium parking lots and along the sidewalks outside Americans’ homes. ‘Overwhelm the problem’: Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z A village was growing on the blacktop, made up of evacuees and campers, tents and RVs, everyone ready to hurry up and wait. Heat, wind and a cruel twist of nature: inside Oregon's nightmarish wildfire season 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The smell of baking blacktop surrounded us as I waited for his answer in the summer heat. I confronted my daughter's boyfriend – but I was really confronting myself 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Most mornings Sheldon made his way across the motel’s parking lot, his aluminum walker scraping the blacktop, to the bus stop where he caught a ride to Walmart. A pandemic, a motel without power and a potentially terrifying glimpse of Orlando’s future 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Pine Mountain is at least 15 miles from the nearest community and 38 miles from Ojai, more than an hour’s drive on the curvy blacktop of Highway 33. Amid Pine Mountain's ancient trees, a forest 'thinning' project triggers protests 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The city will also postpone finishing touches on a segment farther west near the National Nordic Museum, where blacktop for a future trail section was installed this spring during a street rebuild. Seattle can’t uproot Ballard railroad tracks to complete Burke-Gilman Trail, judge rules 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Basu attributed this disparity in part to the fact that many urban spaces lack greenery but boast an excess of blacktop, which traps warmth and creates an "urban heat island," she said. Heat and Racism Threaten Birth Outcomes for Women of Color 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The district also alleges the metallic dust released by the facility is composed of lead, arsenic and other hazards and leaves a “purple shimmer” on the blacktop. LAUSD says recycler is endangering Jordan High students with 'sharp metal projectiles' 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Sergine eyed some men gathering by a fence in the opposite corner of the blacktop. The pandemic hit, and this car became home for a family of four. 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The abundance of blacktop courts like the ones Durant played on, for instance, is one example highlighted in the film. What’s in the water in Prince George’s County? Let Kevin Durant and this new documentary tell you. 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The empty blacktops are drawing in a variety of car enthusiasts, officials say. Roads emptied by coronavirus become magnets to street racers 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z I can still hear the sound of what memory informs me was thousands of shoes shuffling on the blacktop, all headed in one direction. Think this primary season is gut-wrenching? I was there for the trauma of 1968 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z I can still hear the sound of the shuffling of what memory informs me was thousands of shoes shuffling on the blacktop all headed in one direction. The morning after: A next day California remembrance 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z County Road JJ, where the school bus accident occurred, will get new blacktop. The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The business is located several miles from town, down a curvy blacktop road that isn’t heavily trafficked. Barbershop is place to get haircut, shoot off frustration 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z “As you build a great megalopolis … you tend to generate your own heat with shopping centers, housing developments, blacktop,” Patzert said. Column: Thanks to Thunberg, 101-year-old makes a stand against climate change 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Unlike others baptized on the city’s blacktop, Anderson didn’t grow up worshipping at the altar of the Black Mamba. Kobe Bryant's death hits close to home for USC basketball players 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z "It's now a two-lane blacktop and the traffic is coming back harsh... because Trump isn't going to take it." Jesse Watters calls Adam Schiff 'corrupt,' Greg Gutfeld says he is the 'perfect target' for Trump and Republicans 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s not really a parking lot, this cracked blacktop underneath a row of cars. Lakers' star Anthony Davis took root from humble beginnings in Chicago 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z After school on the blacktop of the gated campus, Kamryn’s dedication is on full display. Nipsey Hussle was killed next to a school. His death still haunts students 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Last season, the Los Angeles Clippers had their “L.A. Our Way” slogan, branded themselves as a “blacktop” team and played like they were the more gritty Los Angeles team. Analysis \| Wizards mailbag: What would success look like for this team in 2019-20? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Brown used heat radiated from his blacktop driveway to grow fruit not usually seen outside greenhouses. Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Importantly, the Clippers’ beefed-up front office kept its player personnel moves aligned with the “blacktop team” mantra. Analysis \| The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He hasn’t lit much among the lonely little burgs along the blacktops, while Warren launched her campaign in red western Iowa. It's Biden's race to lose in Iowa – but he should beware the rise of Warren \| Art Cullen 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z It was a scorching summer day in south Los Angeles, the perfect time for a blacktop basketball team to pave its way into the heart of a city. Column: New-age Clippers bring it home as they introduce Kawhi Leonard and Paul George 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z That deal two summers ago helped the Clippers redefine themselves as a “blacktop team” – the kind that would do anything just to keep the next five from taking their place on the court. Column: Steve Ballmer's energy takes center stage at Leonard and George introduction 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z "All the sudden, he just floored it. I ate blacktop. I went down very roughly. I bounced," she told the station. Ohio boy, 8, saves sister from car thief in harrowing escape caught on camera 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The Lakers were “Showtime,” but the Clippers were a “blacktop team.” Analysis \| The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He could blacktop a lot of driveways by selling those secrets — and he’d probably keep the supplies after finishing the job. The Secrets of Pitching’s Outlaws 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Tumbleweeds danced over the blacktop, and beyond the windshield, except for cars passing, it seemed from another time; copper and scrub for miles, an expanse where a soul would find it hard to hide. Cultural Divide: Frank Ray, a Latino former cop changing the face of country music 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, Flanagan stepped off the blacktop near Highway 247 in Lucerne Valley and crouched down to examine the salt brush scrub that dominates this part of the Mojave Desert. California’s biggest county could severely restrict solar energy projects 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “I heard the gunshots around the corner,” she told NPR in 2017, “watched him fall on the blacktop. I heard him saying, ‘God, please don’t let me die’ while he was waiting for the ambulance.” Baltimore’s Ceasefire program strives to create peace amid the violence — at least for a weekend 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The Wizards need their own version of “blacktop team,” a unifying identity and preferred style of play. Analysis \| The Wizards want to follow the Clippers’ model, but they still have a lot to learn 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z With that $2,000 I can blacktop my driveway and I can fix up my house. The Secrets of Pitching’s Outlaws 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z And since the weather in London often isn’t suitable for basketball, players who don’t want to slip and slide on blacktops have to drop money to find indoor courts. NBA London games easily sell out, but basketball just isn’t Britain’s cup of tea 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “For a snow event that dropped this much precipitation, for us to look at the traffic screens statewide and see as much blacktop as we’re seeing is really quite remarkable,” he said. Region’s first major snowfall leads to dangerous roads, flight cancellations and power outages 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z But home is also his grandmother and her cooking, his father, his uncle, the blacktop in his neighborhood — the people and places that raised him. James Akinjo wants to return Georgetown basketball to glory, then bring some home to Oakland 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Other days, the expansive lot — part blacktop, part gravel — mostly sits empty in one of the poorest pockets of the city. To Fight Gentrification, a Brooklyn Pastor Plans to Build 2,100 Apartments 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The success spurred another question: How does a team that views itself at home on the blacktop of a playground keep its edge after ascending to the West’s penthouse? Clippers are inconsistent and Mavericks take advantage 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z A: The good news is the blacktop patching material sold in bags and buckets really does work. Analysis \| How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Exactly two years after he beat Castillo, on blacktop not far from Mandalay Bay, a distraught Corrales was killed in a motorcycle crash. Mikey Garcia-Robert Easter fight brings to mind one of the best bouts in boxing history 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z They set up four or five plastic tables on the blacktop just out of the path of the pungent smoke that billows out of the roof of their custom-designed truck. Head to this Mexicali-style taco truck in East L.A. for barbacoa-stuffed vampiros and fresh flour tortillas 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He's a basketball fan who dreams of running the court at the legendary blacktop tournament Rucker Classic in Harlem. 'Uncle Drew' is the surprise comedy of the summer 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z At nearby blacktop courts, teen boys played basketball, their voices echoing over the sounds of chirping birds and bass from a passing car. Residents in troubled Detroit neighborhood want better 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z If you want success using the blacktop sold at home centers and hardware stores, first start by reading the label instructions. Analysis \| How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z What may have clinched it is that baby boomers — who typically enjoyed recess three times a day — still remember their blacktop days fondly. Recess makes comeback in public schools 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Prince George’s County’s basketball culture was built on the blacktop games of long ago. ‘It’s a great tradition’: In hoops-crazed Prince George’s County, a title run falls just short 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z A beat-up blacktop road north of the Collin County Courthouse leads to the Blake family’s five-bedroom house built on a slope in the early 1960s. Some farmland in North Texas could face urban expansion 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z One worry is practical: that 70-ton tanks built for the battlefield would chew up Pennsylvania Avenue blacktop. Trump’s ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I’ve got great detailed step-by-step tips and remarkable videos showing you secret tips for patching blacktop at my website. Analysis \| How to tell if you need an attic or whole-house fan 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It was there on the blacktop that Miller grew up. His coach told him he needed 30 rebounds for his team to win. So he grabbed 32. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Paramount buried utility lines, threw some dirt over the blacktop of Main Street and peeled away new siding on homes to show unpainted wood. ‘Molly Maguires’ village approaches cinematic milestone 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Behind Federico, the bodyguard posted on the corner dropped into a crouch as three ancient motorbikes accelerated out of the traffic surrounding the park and onto the café’s side street, tires squealing on blacktop. Read an excerpt from Eliot Peper’s new science fiction thriller, Bandwidth 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z It is a rectangle of blacktop surrounded by busy streets, including the famous Las Vegas Strip. Quandary in Las Vegas: What to Do With the Murder Scenes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The riff unfurls like an engine opening up on blacktop, and never stops motoring. From Free Fallin' to American Girl: five of the greatest Tom Petty songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Maybe it was the backbeat of shoes on blacktop, or the metronome arm-swinging. Perspective \| How do you walk from Boston to Maine? One step at a time. 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Think of it as the party laying down the first quarter-mile of blacktop on its road back... The Post-Hillary Democrats 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z They had left Grants, the last town of any size, and Route 66 was just two lanes of blacktop running through sparsely populated Indian reservations in the high desert. Stop making sense! 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z But that didn’t stop him from fixating on a particular park — with its playground and blacktop — in Kalorama Triangle in Northwest Washington and dreaming about its many possibilities, he said. D.C.’s Kalorama Triangle is a nook of serenity tucked into a bustling city 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z You can use this same epoxy to repair cracks in blacktop, disguising the compound with small rocks and sand you press into the fresh epoxy. A top-to-bottom list of what to check outside your home post winter 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But that’s in life, not in drama, where venturing forth on the great American blacktop is often a bonding experience and an everyday hero’s journey. Review: ‘26 Miles’ brings estranged mom, teen closer as they hit the road 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z One of the Senator’s aides had set up a lectern on the blacktop, and a few reporters were stationed in front of it, but most of those assembled lived on the block, in similar-looking houses. Can Chuck Schumer Check Donald Trump? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z To prevent damage to sewer covers and the street, the snowplows often don’t clean down to the blacktop. New York Today: Great Excavations 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Abulhassan greeted parents and a few old friends, and when he eventually made his way outside, he saw the sophomore standing on the blacktop. Meet Osama. To his players, he’s ‘Coach Oss.’ These days, should he be ‘Steve’? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Look for damage to any concrete or blacktop pavement, sidewalks and patios. A top-to-bottom list of what to check outside your home post winter 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z If road crews did this same thing, pothole repairs in blacktop would last much longer. How to fix crumbling concrete 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Or that he grew up learning the game from playing against 30-somethings at fitness clubs and on blacktops. On high schools: Late bloomer KZ Okpala of Esperanza has a rosy future 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z He passed out stickers by the hundreds and put up Trump signs outside the restaurant, “right in the blacktop”. Can Trump really make America great again? 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z These thin precast products must be installed much in the same way you’d install an asphalt or blacktop driveway. Porous driveways offer environmentally friendly, back-to-the-future approach to addressing runoff 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z There is a ½-mile stretch of blacktop separating Stephen Levin and the mailbox of his Stowe, Vt., home. Driveways That Go the Extra Mile 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Luke Walton has always been one to pass the ball, even in his days on the blacktop as an 8-year-old at St. Vincent de Paul School. Luke Walton takes over as the Los Angeles Lakers' new coach 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z A few months ago, Sheron said, he recalled players scattering in fear when a gun fell from someone’s backpack onto the blacktop. Brooklyn Bridge Park Courtside Fights Put Neighbors on Edge 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, the entire student body at Haywood Elementary lined the blacktop driveway outside the school holding signs with enthusiastic messages about reading and books. Books on bikes adds to Big Payback’s story in Nashville 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z And yes, there are lots of financial needs at schools, from books to clean bathrooms to fixing blacktops with cracks. Football and baseball starter looks for a place on a college field 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z That involves scraping the old roadway and putting a new layer of blacktop over it. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Highway 395, a two-lane blacktop that winds into the forested Blue Mountains, where visibility drops dramatically, and where there’s no one around. 'We are not leaving': The final days of an Oregon occupier 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z She started Big Foot’s engine, drove down the blacktop driveway and turned right, heading south onto Soda Bay Road and a life as a tumbleweed on wheels. Too poor to retire and too young to die 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Passers-by walked in the street, cleared in points by snowplows down to bare blacktop, rather than try the thickly covered sidewalk. Battered by East Coast Snowstorm, Cities Face Digging Out 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Several roads need to be blacktopped and curbs and flagpoles need to be replaced. Woods historic district, cemetery may join national registry 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But on 17 November, as a crew installed the footing for a new exterior wall, a construction worker found something unexpected while tearing up the parking lot’s blacktop: part of a human skull. The bodies at Baldwin Hall: UGA uncovers 27 graves during construction project 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The mangled bodies of Islamic State fighters still lay last week on the tree-lined roads in the military compound, sprawled across the blacktop after being hit from the air. Iraqi armed forces see chance for redemption as they close in on Ramadi 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Bryant thought back to what he learned in the structure of the gym and grime of the city blacktop. Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour starts in Philadelphia, where it all began 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The self-supported endeavor demands that the individual walk unassisted, without emotional support on the trail or physical support at blacktop intersections and towns. On the Longest Hiking Trails, a Woman Finds Equal Footing 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The Wabash Valley Community Foundation and Smithville Telephone Co. have donated money in the past couple years for repairs and blacktopping at the cemetery. Woods historic district, cemetery may join national registry 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z If we’re on the blacktop, it’s always a rivalry with Minnesota. Lynx, Mercury renew rivalry in Western Conference finals 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z What a few months ago was barren blacktop has burst with color and greenery. A farm grows in Chinatown in Philadelphia 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Money for the school and for the church - a new roof and new windows and new carpeting and a new piano, repairs to the school bus and blacktop for the parking lot. Proceeds from ‘Thrift Store Angels’ benefit community 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Worse, the pavement at the site is blacktop, not concrete, further inhibiting driver vision. Rare fallen trees led to I-90 tragedy near Lookout Pass 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z At Lovell Canyon road we turned off, the blacktop becoming a dusty trail we followed for six miles until we reached our destination - the Def Con shoot. A journey into Def Con country - BBC News 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Prince was raised in the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene and cultivated her game on nearby blacktop courts like so many Brooklyn guards before her. Epiphanny Prince’s Arrival Raises Liberty’s Hopes of Returning to W.N.B.A. Playoffs 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Stephenson, who developed his edge as a child on the blacktops of his native Brooklyn, N.Y., said he would bring defensive tenacity in addition to a resolve the Clippers lacked. Lance Stephenson says it's 'passion,' not angst, he'll bring to Clippers 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. Tribute for a Roller Hockey Warrior Who Broke the Color Barrier 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Fans were given the opportunity to vote for the school’s next court this past season and one of the three options was Kampe’s “blacktop” court. Oakland unveils new ‘blacktop’ basketball court 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “I turned onto a blacktop road, not to get close, just so I could see it through the windshield,” Schroeder said. Mankato-area weather spotters are eyes, ears in emergencies 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z At night, an older driver may squint to see the edge of white road stripes on blacktop. Focusing the Brain on Better Vision 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Run in the shade, when possible, and avoid hot blacktop, asphalt, or sand, which can burn dogs’ paws. Running With Your Dog: 17 Dos and Don'ts 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The University of Phoenix Stadium looked like a giant hubcap in the middle of a parking lot, the paved-over blacktop barely distinguishable from the flat wasteland fields surrounding Glendale. Super Bowl XLIX: Tom Brady, New England’s win is worth the price of admission 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Not long after, copies of the report showed up tacked to telephone poles and displayed in a common area known as the blacktop in Guest’s Westport neighborhood. Dozens in D.C., Maryland paid the ultimate price for cooperating with police 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z We drove with the windows down, swaying over the blacktop, the air beating around us. On the Open Road, Signs of a Changing Cuba 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z After they are incapacitated, officers should carry them off the blacktop and place them under arrest. Ferguson Protesters Blocking Highways Are Lawbreakers 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z They are planning to install rain barrels, build rain gardens, plant trees and, perhaps, replace their blacktop with permeable pavement. Churches receive stormwater fee discounts by starting ‘green’ ministries, sermons The truck’s suspension soaks up urban bumps and potholes like bread in gravy, only becoming slightly unnerved over extended patches of broken blacktop. GMC Yukon Review: Why General Motors Owns The Big SUV Market 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z A seemingly unending stream of teenagers stood outside on the blacktop, many clad in black and gray. Burying Young Players Isn’t Part of the Game 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Over time people started to refer to any sort of asphalt or blacktop as tarmac. SAPVoice: Blue Juice, Tarmac, and Other Air Travel Slang 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z He is still ranting and steps up onto a slightly elevated blacktop across the sidewalk from where the cops are standing, guns drawn. HURT: When officer safety is job No. 1, the public suffers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The heat, reaching 100 degrees in the middle of the day, was oppressive on the exposed blacktop. Ferguson looks to turn unrest into action 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Rooftops were deserts of sticky blacktop, the last places to which any sane New Yorker would retreat. Manhattan’s Secret Pools and Gardens 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The Star recently took a trip from Aurora to West Plains, a distance of 134 miles over blacktops and gravel roads, stopping to talk to people in small towns and farms along the way. Recent shootings heap new attention on Ozarks 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The game is played on a smooth, hard surface, usually concrete, blacktop or a gymnasium floor. A Funny Name, a Serious Sport. Pickleball, Anyone? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The only sound was the hum of big rigs bouncing off the blacktop. Motel operator is driven to keep Route 66 culture alive and kicking 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z The clatter of horseshoes on blacktop is already part of the ambience outside Mercedes House. The Appraisal: Next Residents of a Luxury Building: Police Horses 2014-04-14T18:30:56Z Damon Baehrel is making dinner out of the scrub brush next to his blacktop driveway. Damon Baehrel, Chef of Most Exclusive Restaurant in the U.S., Opens Up 2013-12-12T20:40:19Z He also warned people to expect “white roads” in the morning because salt was only minimally effective at temperatures this low and said it was impossible to clear streets to the blacktop by plowing alone. East Coast Storm Brings Snow and Disruptions to the New York Region 2014-01-22T06:41:10Z The current gen buyers will receive 10,000 virtual currency, extra content for the new Path to Greatness mode, a LeBron signature skill for My Player and LeBron in the blacktop mode. LeBron James Crowned King Of 2K Sports NBA 2K14 As Cover Athlete 2013-06-07T01:00:00Z Basketball is the sport that can be practiced two-on-two, even solo, on ubiquitous blacktops or in gymnasiums. Roots in the Game Grow Strong in Georgia 2013-06-03T01:43:35Z Carts punish grass, which led to the laying of unsightly ribbons of blacktop to accommodate them. On Par: Long Island Club Reintroduces a Golf Artifact, the Caddie 2013-06-03T01:10:28Z The towers clutched around J. R.’s high-rise were each controlled by a different gang, and the blacktop between them was known as the killing fields. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z A new documentary, "Doin' it in the Park," is a loving ode to the blacktop world of New York City pick-up. Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball 2013-05-18T14:07:09Z At recess, school children play pickup, which is made easy because school officials paint soccer lines on blacktops. Goal: ‘The Game That Never Ends’ 2013-05-04T16:21:08Z But then we turned onto the unmarked blacktop road that led out to Chris and Anneliese’s and saw the car there, a silver Toyota, engine running, stopped in our lane and facing the wrong direction. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z Falls to the ground account for nearly 70 percent of playground injuries, according to the NPPS, so avoid playsets atop concrete, asphalt, grass, blacktop and packed dirt or rocks. Playground Safety: Fun Without the Injuries 2013-04-09T13:30:00Z Obviously, the stakes of today's multi-billion dollar N.B.A. are far too high for us to naively expect such blacktop honor to carry the day. Off the Dribble: When it Comes to Calling Fouls, N.B.A. Should Look to the Playground 2012-09-14T17:55:24Z I am convinced that some of the city’s truths, if not all of them, are boiled down on its basketball blacktops. A New Arrival Explores New York Through Pickup Basketball 2012-07-11T20:12:43Z The traffic backups on the two-lane blacktop roads that feed into town start earlier than most of the farmers nearby are awake. A jury for Jerry: can 12 unbiased jurors be found for the Sandusky trial? 2012-06-05T19:20:00Z She strained to look around me to where the girl was still standing on the blacktop, as if she’d been fixed in place. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z Rich in history, the court had since been paved, and rumor had it that Robertson would play on the blacktop until the Lockefield residents ran him off at 1 a.m. Recalling Indianapolis Pickup Games Worth the Wait 2012-04-04T00:21:23Z "We go outside on the blacktop," he said, then laughed. 'Some things never cease to amaze me ...' 2012-03-25T10:02:08Z Unlike most players, concerned about cushioning and support, Young refuses to wear orthopedic insoles in his sneakers, hoping to always generate the feeling he had when he used to play pickup on the blacktop. Wizards can?t repeat magic in Los Angeles 2012-02-16T13:20:06Z So there you are cruising down a two-lane blacktop in a tiny town at 80 miles per hour in these black S.U.V.’s. The Caucus: For Romney, Secret Service Detail Poses Challenges on the Campaign Trail 2012-02-03T15:27:20Z When he wasn’t playing organized basketball, he said he was on that well-known blacktop, often competing against older, stronger players. Georgetown freshman Jabril Trawick ?is not going to get pushed around? 2012-01-04T01:25:24Z At Cesar Chavez Elementary School, physical education lessons, taught by classroom teachers, are held on a fenced-in blacktop lot below a huge, colorful mural of the school’s namesake. The Bay Citizen: Affluent Children Are More Physically Fit Than Poor Ones 2011-12-24T23:05:54Z Beside Heath, a kid in construction boots dribbled along the uneven blacktop, waiting for the next game to begin. Locked-Out N.B.A. Stars Find a Home in Philadelphia Arena 2011-09-26T02:19:05Z “With all this pavement, all this blacktop, these tar roofs, it makes for a big oven,” Mr. Booker said. Feeling the Heat? It?s Worse in Newark 2011-07-22T01:48:16Z The main blacktop road to Cooper is blocked by floodwater, but a gravel road to the plant is still open about five miles south of town. Nuclear regulator visits second Nebraska plant on Missouri 2011-06-27T20:38:38Z The 150-acre Toyota parking lot in Long Beach, Calif., where imported cars usually sit in long white rows, is as empty as the blacktop around a football stadium in springtime. Economix: Cars as a Harbinger of an Upturn 2011-06-24T10:00:46Z THE yellow Ferrari Italia twists out of a steep curve and rockets down the ribbon of blacktop. ?Sex on Wheels?? Now Ferrari Has ?Room for Groceries,? Too 2011-05-14T17:07:02Z Bud reached the blacktop road and waited for the bus to take him to the Haleyville Consolidated School, where he was to enter the eighth grade. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z His antics were emulated by budding shooters on blacktops all across the country, as Miller’s rise to prominence suddenly made it cool to scurry to the 3-point line and run circles around opponents. Off the Dribble: Weighing Reggie Miller's Hall of Fame Credentials 2011-02-20T19:43:55Z Most of the streets have blacktop showing, but the intersections and cross walk areas are still a mess. City Room: It's 7 A.M. Is Your Street Plowed? 2010-12-30T15:16:48Z Some hard-core fans dressed in rain suits and clutching umbrellas passed the screen without looking as they strained against the steep blacktop incline that sweeps down from the old clubhouse. Woods Addresses the News Media in Wet Wales 2010-09-28T21:18:00Z Rather than a blacktop, we played on dirt that had been packed hard, that Southern clay. In Basketball, Danger of Head Trauma 2010-09-14T10:51:00Z Take Dave Petrovits, who owns a company that does site development and blacktopping and who serves on the executive committee of the county Republican Party. Our Towns: For G.O.P., a County in Transition 2010-09-16T06:50:00Z And now we’ve finally got that car up on the blacktop there, about to drive, and they say they want the keys back. September Senate Debate Expected on Extending Tax Cuts for Rich 2010-08-05T02:57:00Z Alongside railroad tracks, in the cracked blacktops of abandoned lots, in dark, stagnant alleys. Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the much reviled tree of heaven 2010-06-14T04:00:00Z When Ms. Manderson’s $35,000 motorized wheelchair rolls over aging blacktop and concrete, she feels every bump and crack in her bones; each sidewalk seam and tree root jolts a nerve. A Young Disabled Teacher Navigates a Vertical City 2010-05-01T17:49:00Z I don't miss the damage metal spikes did but they sure sounded cool when you walked on concrete or blacktop. Questions and answers by Craig Smith 2010-04-28T04:16:00Z A. I mean, if you’re going to play basketball on the streets and on the blacktops, trash talking is a part of the game. 2010-01-30T03:11:00Z Zircon took a blacktop road to the west, close to the base of the mountain. The Flaming Mountain Then the blacktop road curved out into the desert to the great radio telescope. The Egyptian Cat Mystery On the Golp Terrace, as the blacktop island was called, everyone and everything conformed—or else. A Knyght Ther Was Rounding a curve in a narrow, blacktop road, he saw the home behind a grove of trees. Occasion for Disaster The steps had been removed and I found myself hanging over the road, sliding headfirst into it, clanging my head off the blacktop with a thump that rang my ears like a gong. Little Brother At the end of the blacktop, he and Scotty got out and examined the road surface. The Flaming Mountain He turned off the blacktop and started down the rutted path. Lease to Doomsday They sat on a wooden porch and looked across the humpy patched blacktop road to a steep hillside, densely green and silent. Joe Burke's Last Stand The second day I was on a blacktop road and just coming out of a wooded� stretch where I could see the line up the straight open road ahead.� The Biography of a Rabbit Willow waved and then bumped down to the blacktop road where she picked up speed and breezed downhill into town, her hair fluttering nicely behind her. Joe Burke's Last Stand
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