Sentence examples for empty asphalt from inspiring English sources

Thomas Beller's essay demonstrates the various neighborhood dynamics at work on a seemingly empty "asphalt plain".

Great stretches of empty asphalt were visible on ordinarily busy downtown crossings such as the Paso del Norte.

Somewhere along a stretch of road bordered by pines in strict formation, the man put a hand on her knee and squinted, straining, toward the empty asphalt ahead.

The Wal-Mart lot looked and felt hotter than any place he'd been all day, the mostly empty asphalt windy and buttery with petroleum fumes from the river.

Spinning down empty asphalt, I collect the almost mystical names on the roadside signs —Bullet Canyon, Cigarette Springs, Paradox, Egnar (that's range spelled backward) — rolling them around in my mouth just to feel their sharp corners and the grit of history on them.

On my first visit to check out what hopefully will not be my home soon, I slowly maneuvered my car through a massive and mostly empty asphalt parking lot and walked up to an un-landscaped area of concrete picnic tables laid out in the dirt under the desert sun.

West 11th Street was empty, the asphalt glazed with rain, the scene as still as a movie set.

It stood on its empty acre of asphalt parking space like an oversized mausoleum.

The same gray façades of the Stalinist office buildings stared out at empty stretches of asphalt.

The empty acres of asphalt around Giants Stadium are a cause for Acting Gov.

Today, its mothballed base is a wilderness of broken asphalt, empty silos, tumbled buildings and a chapel, eerily intact.