Examples of pavement in a Sentence
He stopped the car just off the pavement.
The summer heat rose off the pavement.
Recent Examples on the Web
The boyfriend inexplicably stormed up to an uninvolved man sitting on a scooter watching the incident unfold and shoved him to the pavement, the video shows.
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
Kevin, her dad, raced from the Wong family home just a few blocks away to find his daughter unconscious on the pavement.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
With a whack, the 13-year-old who started riding six months ago stomped the board’s wooden tail to the pavement, launching herself and the board upward.
—Cameron Duran, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
Some crashed to the pavement through firefighters’ feeble nets.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
Kevin, her dad, raced from the Wong family home just a few blocks away to find his daughter unconscious on the pavement.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
With a whack, the 13-year-old who started riding six months ago stomped the board’s wooden tail to the pavement, launching herself and the board upward.
—Cameron Duran, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
Some crashed to the pavement through firefighters’ feeble nets.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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“Pavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pavement. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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pavement
noun
pave·ment
ˈpāv-mənt 
1
: a paved surface (as of a street)
2
: the material with which something is paved
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