pavement

Example Sentences

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It was inspired by Cullen's son Lee, after she spotted a message he had written in chalk on a pavement when he was eight years old.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Yet even then, our independence was strictly limited by where the safe pavement ended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

And ruptured pavement is keeping lots of lawyers busy with trip-and-fall lawsuits that cost the city millions each year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

The supers were still spraying down the pavement, and the ground was littered with the mush of damp fallen leaves and the last bits of refuse from the previous night.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny