Example sentences for: paving

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

  • The main street that runs parallel to this beach is known as the Adoquín, named for the hexagon-shaped interlocking bricks used in its paving.

  • To celebrate the golden anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949, Tiananmen Square was recently renovated, with granite replacing the old paving blocks.

  • 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.

  • Down on the Malabar coast, the great Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed in 1498, paving the way for his countrymen to form a settlement in Goa.

  • Stand on either of the circular paving stones set between the square’s twin 17th-century fountains and the red granite Egyptian obelisk to appreciate the harmony of the quadruple rows of Doric columns, so perfectly aligned that they seem like a single row.


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