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Six example sentences with bitumen, each labelled with its topic.
Workers spread hot bitumen across the flat roof, sealing every seam before the first autumn storm arrived.
Architecture
Extracting bitumen from the sands takes enormous volumes of river water, which is why the tailings ponds keep growing.
Environment
Mesopotamian builders waterproofed their reed boats with bitumen skimmed from the black seeps along the riverbank.
History
Reynolds mixed bitumen into his shadows for a warm glow, and two centuries later those passages have cracked like dried mud.
Art
Alberta's economy rises and falls with bitumen, since the sands are costly to work and only pay when oil is high.
Economics
Visitors to Trinidad's Pitch Lake walk across a crust of natural bitumen that slowly swallows anything left standing on it.
Travel
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