The word 'asphalt' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a material used for roads and paving, typically made from a mixture of bitumen and small stones or other material. Example sentence: The old road was resurfaced with asphalt so that it would be more durable.
"Between the concrete, asphalt, and chain link fences, they don't have any other places.
I was too busy trying not to hit the asphalt to get a glimpse of the number plate and I had no information other than the site and time of the assault.
Etched deeply and forever is the very last day of primary school, when a frenetic game of chasing in the playground ended with a crash on to the asphalt and my left arm.
Recent projects include a four-lane asphalt road between Bamako and Dakar, the Ouarzazate solar power generation project in Morocco, and the 620-mile (1,000km) electricity distribution line between Ethiopia and Kenya, which will connect 1.4 million people.
This only adds insult to injury, say environmentalists who describe the rapid development of the forests around San Salvador as all but replacing the "lungs" of the capital with luxury homes, concrete and asphalt.
The instructions from the Home Office were that the site should be covered with two feet of earth, sown with grass and intercut with asphalt paths, to create pleasant walks for the public.
Comme des Garçons' latest scent, Serpentine, combines grass, leaves, asphalt and even a little pollution.
But they had better beware: they are painting self-portraits in asphalt and concrete.
WHEN driving to a roadkill cook-off the sight of a flattened raccoon, tail poking up out of the asphalt like the handle on a frying pan, induces a jittery effect in the stomach.
The DOJ slammed companies in the businesses of billboards, school textbooks, rubbish collection, wireless telephony, parking lots, milk, radio stations, paper coatings, asphalt and concrete production, software, health care, grain purchases, banking and petroleum-drilling fluids.
Bolivia has been showered with gifts, including asphalt for its highways, student grants and the indefinite loan of two large helicopters.
