Example sentences for: paving

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

  • The interior continues the bands of black and white marble, while elaborately inlaid marble paving  — one of the cathedral’s primary attractions, with large sections regularly covered for protection — covers the floor with 56 pictures of biblical and allegorical themes, done over two centuries by some 40 artists.

  • Some Mixtec immigrants also have formed native groups, or hometown associations, that send money home for projects such as telephone lines or street paving.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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