Example sentences for: pavement

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

  • You’ll likely be busy looking up, or in chic store windows, when you stroll along Passeig de Gràcia, but be sure to notice the ground as well: Gaudí himself designed the hexagonal pavement tiles with nature motifs.

  • You’ll wade your way through jugglers, fire-eaters, tarot-card readers, lottery-ticket sellers, more mimes, mendicants, and many artists rapidly knocking out portraits, caricatures, and chalk masterwork reproductions on the pavement.

  • The unique piazza’s red-brick herringbone paving/pavement is divided by nine marble strips for the nine patrician clans that ruled the city at the end of the 13th century.

  • But matters get more complicated when British lexicographers assume that American English pavement means the surface of a road if it has been specially put there, esp. if made from concrete or tarmac.

  • Scuffing your shoes on the pavement wears down the leather, not up .


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