Example sentences for: paving

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

  • While the federal government will foot most of the bill for the funeral, "the city will have to cover costs for paving roads and painting houses," the newspaper said.

  • 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.

  • It has splendid marble paving and, etched in the wall of one of the smaller rooms, a controversial cross regarded by some as one of the oldest Christian relics, though others insist the emblem was not adopted until the conversion of Constantine three centuries later.

  • Antique shafts of porphyry, onyx, marble, and jasper, they seem to grow out of the paving stones like trees in an enchanted forest.

  • Not even the long limousine inspires a class-conscious hooligan to hurl a paving stone; the wise ragamuffin knows he's likely not seeing a mogul but some kids from Queens on the way to their prom.


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