pavement
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Where possible, opt to walk on uneven surfaces, such as grass, sand or gravel, instead of pavement.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The heat felt like 100 degrees radiating off the pavement.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
When the site was last tested, solvents were found in the soil below the pavement and down 150 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Certainly the music played a big part, the children busking on every spare square of pavement, a joyful cacophony of tin whistle, fiddle, bodhrán.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Weeds grew up everywhere, through cracks in the pavement, asphalt, and patches of dry, stony soil.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
I grew up in Kolkata, where wide pavements disappeared beneath rows of hawkers.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
AFP on Saturday saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He said ignorance of the law was not an excuse, but he believed most people riding e-scooters did know they should not be using them on pavements and roads.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
We walked in silence, Rodney leading the way, through little backstreets hardly penetrated by the sun, the pavements so narrow we often had to shuffle along in single file.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
