Example sentences for: paved

How can you use “paved” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That is better than the treatment in Questions of English (see the review elsewhere in this issue), but it ignores the fact that the word is used in AE to describe any paved surface: when an American says, I remember nothing after my head hit the pavement, the site of the paved surface could be a road, sidewalk, or any other paved area.

  • Agriculture grew up into agribusiness; the film industry expanded into the new field of television; the aircraft industry was boosted by the space program; and semiconductor technology paved the way for Silicon Valley.

  • Formally correct but pretentious is the street name Camino del Monte Sol , which before it was paved was sometimes irreverently called Camino del Muddy Soil . Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.

  • Escape down the little paved road south of town to the peace of the shady Romanesque and Renaissance cloisters of the 14th-century Certosa di San Giacomo, or in the direction of Via Camerelle that eventually leads to the famous Punta Tragara lookout and the Faraglioni.

  • By my reckoning, Monica's road to public ridicule was paved by four mistakes--and on each fateful occasion she was encouraged by a much older co-conspirator.


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