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

"Without vendors, I don't think Hanoi is Hanoi anymore," said Nguyen Thi Hoan, 58, who used to sell flowers on the pavement outside a large downtown apartment complex.

From Barron's • 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

The marquee lights melted on the wet pavement in long white gleams.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt