pavement

Example Sentences

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It was inspired by Cullen's son Lee, after she spotted a message he had written in chalk on a pavement when he was eight years old.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Yet even then, our independence was strictly limited by where the safe pavement ended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

“In fact,” he said when he first emailed me about his predicament, “my friends and I sometimes used the ramping pavement as jumps for our bicycles.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

The school is a long brick building in the middle of a sea of gray pavement.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy