Example sentences for: paving

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

  • 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.

  • The massive Gothic interior is lightened by the brightly colored paving and groin-vaulting.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Who'd have thought that Mamet was secretly in love with the well-carpentered, '40s and '50s drawing-room plays of the terribly English Terence Rattigan, whom the Angry Young Men of the late '50s loutishly blew off the boards--thus paving the way for Mamet's expletive-laced theater games?


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