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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 .