- present participle of pave.
paving
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Wednesday to prepare for paving when water began coming up from the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Canada on Tuesday joined the project as an "observer", paving the way for it to become a full member.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, was dissolved Friday, paving the way for a vote in late October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has appointed the final 70 members of the country's new parliament, paving the way for it to hold its first session next week.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
They tumbled to the paving stones at the foot of the bridge, the ancient leather splitting, pages of parchment flying.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The team visually unified opposite sides of the street with pavings of red brick, which function as a visual bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
Building works take up a chunk of the stone pavings, where a raging fire in March in the parking lot below has de-stabilized the elegant place.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2012
Almost five inches of additional layers including concrete, waterproofing and pavings sat between the slab and the surface that residents walked on, according to a 2020 engineer’s report.
From Washington Post
From early morning the cobbled pavings clattered beneath the feet of multitudes wending their way to St. Peter's Square.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shaft was filled in with earth and the pavings described.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry
