Example sentences for: paving

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

  • 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?

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

  • They reasserted their rights in the insurrection of July 1830 — the kind of liberal revolution they would have preferred back in 1789 — paving the way for the “bourgeois monarchy” of Louis-Philippe.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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