pavement

Example Sentences

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Lichtenberg isn’t pounding the pavement to find and unveil secrets about institutions and power brokers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

We are closing side roads to the crash gates to keep these usable but the issue of pavement parking continues.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

In San Francisco, Anthropic fans wielded brightly colored sidewalk chalk to ornament the pavement outside of the company’s office with messages of thanks, laudatories such as “You are patriots” and references to Nelson Mandela.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

It's a classic case of parking bay-sprawl: there's an official parking box painted on the road, but many of the vehicles have been left outside the boundary, meaning they block much of the pavement.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

She laughed and gently kicked the pavement with her sneaker.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry