Example sentences for: pavement

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

  • For his trouble, he was flipped to the pavement and beaten so severely that he went blind in one eye.

  • Then the two were left to die on the pavement.

  • Mighty Martinis!Guts long and hardy as expressways!Marooned in Dallas after death, waking astonished!Blown along the pavement like loose pages of the Dallas Morning News !Blown through canyons of sparkling fountains!Spring water bubbling out of nowhere cascading to nowhere!In the historic Farmers Market are giant cauliflowers, broccoli and beans!

  • 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.

  • The Aviation Consumer Action Project, a Ralph Nader group, says that in an attempted water landing, a wide body jet would "shatter like a raw egg dropped on pavement, killing most if not all passengers on impact, even in calm seas with well-trained pilots and good landing trajectories."


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