WordNet
v. cover with asphalt or a similar surface; "hard-surface roads"
Usage examples of "hard surface".
Two great, flat hoops, edgedown, of metal, or at least of something that shone like polished steel, were anchored in the hard surface on which AndFriend lay and curved over her, at a third of her length in from each end of her.
A knot of people, with Beverly Crusher at the center, gathered over the man laid out on the hard surface of the unadorned compartment.
Immediately over his head, the material of the interior of the wall presented a smooth, flat, hard surface, which seemed capable of resisting the most vigorous attempts at its destruction.
I struck my shoulder on a hard surface and lay there for a moment, stunned.
Two great, flat hoops, edge-down, of metal, or at least of something that shone like polished steel, were anchored in the hard surface on which AndFriend lay and curved over her, at a third of her length in from each end of her.
She was hoisted unceremoniously over someone's shoulder, carried a short distance and dumped onto a cold hard surface.
With a sigh he stretched out on the hard surface and closed his eyes.
As blackness dissolved his consciousness, he felt the globe's hard surface through his glove.
He knew it from the eerie flares illuminating the town of Mainz to the southwest, and from the red tracers that flew upward to meet those flares after ricocheting off of some hard surface.
For what felt like a long time now, Svengaard had been increasingly aware of hunger and a swooping, turning motion that rolled his body against a hard surface.
Either it was empty or, just possibly, it wasn't a box at all: merely a block of wood less dense than it seemed from its hard surface to be.
The thrumming of wings ceased abruptly, the living flower was dropped from a height on some hard surface and Maal Dweb was nearly hurled from his hiding place by the violence of her fall.
The hard surface felt cool to his touch, and he suspected that he held a gem of surpassing wealth, though he could not discern its nature.
On the rest of the frost-hard surface, the big flakes had soon started to settle but for a while those that hit the salt melted away.
I closed my hand upon a hard surface, though that was nearly as dull-gray now as the sky above us.