pavement

Example Sentences

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Lichtenberg isn’t pounding the pavement to find and unveil secrets about institutions and power brokers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In San Francisco, Anthropic fans wielded brightly colored sidewalk chalk to ornament the pavement outside of the company’s office with messages of thanks, laudatories such as “You are patriots” and references to Nelson Mandela.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

This is what truly sparked the war over pavement space.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

"You can walk through central Oxford any time and you'll find at least one pavement blocked by e-scooters," she says.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

As soon as he turned down Burman Street, Bryson could hear their feet quicken, hear the footfalls on the pavement speed up like rain going from drizzle to downpour.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds