Sentence examples for asphalt like from inspiring English sources

Broken safety glass sparkled on the asphalt like mica.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition.

He throws his cigarette butt toward them and it explodes against the asphalt like a bomb sized for insects.

"Suffering is lying on the asphalt like some kind of wounded animal, drowning in your own blood while your teenage daughter watches," Ms. Magness said.

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.

When news of R.L.'s death arrives, the world reels and capsizes, yet even then we see the shadows of children — capering upside down, on the sunlit asphalt, like ghosts of what should have been.

For the 3D numerical model, basalt fiber reinforced asphalt-like materials (BFRA) are assumed to consist of two components: the homogeneous asphalt-like matrix with the Burgers viscoelastic model and the basalt fibers with the elastic model.

This paper presents a new three-dimensional (3D) numerical model to investigate the viscoelastic response and reinforcement mechanism of asphalt-like materials, including asphalt mastic and mortar mixed with basalt fibers at high temperature.

This analysis protocol introduces markers inside asphalts, like SBS or EVA copolymers or carbonyl and sulfoxide indices.

When the asphalt is like a trampoline and the miles tick by in a beat.

The streets were strewn with trash, and the asphalt looked like spilled lava.