How To Use Pavement In A Sentence

Well, suddenly without any warning, a couple of weeks ago, men and machines arrived and started digging up the road and pavement and generally causing the usual traffic chaos.
She had sore feet from walking on hard pavements all day.
A unique feature of VTM - 4 is that it drives the rear wheels whenever the vehicle accelerates, even on dry pavement.
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
We are trying to give the roads back to the motorist and the pavements back to pedestrians.

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I am three and a half and I get fed up when I go for walks with my Mummy because the pavements are always so messy because of dog poo.
No sign of Dobson and his goon, but one bloke was stock-still on the pavement, keeping his eyes on us even when jostled. THE TARTAN RINGERS
You may claim to dislike walking and it is often an unpleasant experience when confined to hard pavements, and busy, polluted streets. How to Lower High Blood Pressure
Originally, the small church was equipped by elaborate vaulting and plasterwork, and the pavement was covered by tiles.
We can ourselves bear witness to the "hardness of the pavement" below, which Captain Wentworth feared would cause "too great a jar" when he urged the young lady to desist from the fatal leap. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
And so we turn our attention to sheepskin boots in which to pound the pavements, or indeed fly to Switzerland. Times, Sunday Times
His safety-conscious friend, still on the pavement, nodded, clearly agreeing. Times, Sunday Times
Interconnected streets allow rush-hour overflow to trickle through neighborhoods, moving more traffic with less pavement.
One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
As the bus turned into a new recognizable road, the pavements were filled with people, scarves blowing in the wind.
Penalty for dogs fouling the pavement - £50.
Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
At closing time he reeled out of the pub and fell down on the pavement.
When these lie wet for a while on a white pavement they leave a clear imprint of their shape behind them. Times, Sunday Times
Her head hit the pavement with a muffled bash, and she was knocked unconscious.
Lights fizzing onto the pavement, I felt the rain pattering down by my shoes. Bitchin' about being a bitch. «
The photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood about his head.
Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
The road snaked upward, its old pavement cracked in places, making the ride a bit rough.
We always clear any snow from our garden path and the pavement outside our house. Times, Sunday Times
There is a crowd of chanting people walking down the street, traffic is at a standstill and police line the pavements.
It is all too easy to sneak out of the apartment now, and within the space of five minutes, my footsteps are pounding along the pavement.
Dave's car, a dark blue Merc with the personalised number plate B16 LAF (geddit?) is parked on the pavement outside.
By twisting her body and bracing her legs to counteract the momentum, she barely managed to prevent herself from falling face-first onto the hard, grimy pavement.
The fact that the track is dirt changes things as well - in other motor sports the surface is pavement and thus static.
Empty bottles, cans and food containers are just chucked in the bushes and along the pavements, and while Belle Vue Gardens are being revamped the litter is thrown in there.
Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
As I type, an angry thunderstorm is rolling across the skies and the rain is lashing down onto the scorched pavements; now gently steaming.
The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.
Hasidic men, in their long black coats, black hats, untrimmed beards, and side curls known as payot, prowl the pavement in search of a transaction. Crystal Death
It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. Sons and Lovers
Although thousands of people lined the pavements to salute the couple, the turnout was much lower than had been expected.
On the west pavement at 7 Croall Place is Borland's Darts and Television Emporium.
A separation and drainage layer, of a coarse-grained material such as sand, can be constructed to isolate the unsealed pavement from the underlying saturated soils.
She escaped serious injury as a pavement cafe boss rushed to grab her shoulders as she was left dangling yesterday. The Sun
They jumped off at a building, which looked the same as all the other building, except this one had a few stains on the pavement and a dint in the wall.
Small kiosks selling snacks and bottled drinks are to be seen along Pyongyang's pavements. Times, Sunday Times
The cortège drove past the university, where hundreds of students and staff silently lined the pavements or watched from vantage points on surrounding buildings.
A few cars had smashed windscreens and the entrails of radios strewn over the seats and onto the pavement where the doors had been wrenched open.
There's so much dog shit on the pavement.
The pavement was hosed down and all of the glue was removed.
Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
He said he only asked them to move their cars if they were parked on the pavement so a wheelchair or pram could get through.
The width of the pavement plus about six inches, as Matt and the cart hit the fence about halfway up with a sickening, bone-crunching thud.
There are plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages - rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.
Theseus killing the Minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete, and labyrinths in general, were favorite subjects for church pavements, especially among the Gauls.
Thin tread causes the tire to hydroplane - riding up on a film of water and losing contact with the pavement, similar to driving on ice.
They are tumbling down in wind-blown, varicoloured showers on to pavements and woodland floors everywhere. Times, Sunday Times
I climbed over massive flat pavements of grey silty sandstone, making the whole cliffside seem like the world's largest amphitheatre.
More than a hundred fines have now been issued to people who drop litter or let their dogs foul the pavement in Sheffield.
The gravelly whir of wheels on pavement is subtle, while motorcycle engines throb and roar.
He argued that one horse could pull more with a two-wheel, rather than four-wheel, vehicle, since there was less friction with the pavement and the wheel was larger, but carthorses were more easily fatigued and worn out.
The cover, a thin card folder, shows a bearded man gesticulating at traffic from the pavement.
A small dog yaps along the pavement next to a boy on a trike.
Along the route I noticed 4 separate lots of dog dirt fouling the pavement.
The fibers were added to increase the toughness of the pavement.
They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style.
The women navigate cobblestones and broken pavements on stilettos without breaking stride.
I sat on the pavement by the music wing to catch a little sunshine, and to look out to the school's handball court.
The pavement managing system to identify pavement conditions is an index of 10, with 10 representing an ideal road surface.
One thing about walking around a lot with a small child is that your eyes are always looking downwards towards the pavement.
‘There are no pavements on Gordon Street, so students and employees of the law school would have no choice but to walk on the slush and mud,’ she said.
People expectorating on the pavement is not a big issue in this city.
CHICO - New drugstores in Chico won't need to provide as much customer parking - a change planners believe may provide more opportunity for businesses to build on underutilized sites and cut back on pavement. Local News
I can feel the cracks in the pavement through the soles of my shoes.
Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.
Don't ride your bicycle on the pavement.
He said the agency had trained local people to build a 3,750 km pavement with 2,2km of kerbing.
It was not long ago that, at enormous expense, the pavement was relaid and now we have Tarmac extensions!
It was then that, owing to the pressure of numbers, the stone balustrade skirting the wall of the hotel collapsed onto the pavement.
Streetlamps cast a cold, pale glow on the pavement; an occasional trolley rattles by below.
Cars and lorries hurtle past him on roads that have no pavements, often coming within inches of knocking him into oblivion. Times, Sunday Times
Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
Fuel oil was splattered all over a public square, coating pavements, benches, flowerbeds.
This method determines pavement deflection when undersealing, in accordance with the specifications.
The use of impervious surfaces (like pavement and concrete) can be minimized and replaced with pervious surfaces (like stone and gravel) whenever possible.
In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province.
The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over). October 2009
The steep pavement was too narrow for them to walk abreast.
We get people crashed out on the pavement. Times, Sunday Times
The pavement was glassine and visibility was limited.
Rose awoke to the usual sounds of cars manoeuvring down the road, children playing in the park across the road and the chatting of women on the pavement below.
I bounced up over the hood and ricocheted off the windshield, skidding to a stunned halt across the blacktop pavement.
When not in use for bullfights also, the Plaza is a pleasant square with pavement cafes where many people enjoy the locally produced drink - aniseed aperitif.
There in front of me a man-made object was seemingly defying the laws of physics, because it remained sideways moving at the same rate of speed with puffy white smoke billowing from the tires — the sound and smell of rubber being scrapped across pavement, in a way it was not designed to, filled the air around us. Driving story from heck
The heatwave has broken, the temperature has dropped, the sun has clouded over and the pavements are wet.
But it feels like the boobies have been well and fully chomped to bits - not mention dragged over pavement - so I'm going with 'chomp' as my descriptive verb of choice. The Boobityville Horror
The pavement of the trough is generally laid of blocks of wood 6 inches in thickness, cut across the grain, and placed on their ends, to the width of the sluiceway. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
The car, right, became wedged between the bus stop and metal railings after it landed on the pavement. Times, Sunday Times
He jumped, hurling his adrenalised body left onto the pavement.
The youths scuttled down the drive and spilled on to the pavement, where they looked suddenly confused and directionless. PROSPECT HILL
All the rave reviews in the world couldn't turn Pavement into pop stars - maybe it's because they couldn't dance.
[Page 300] if it were a specimen of some 'tesselated pavement' fit for a museum, and not a pebble is to be found in its natural state. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
They spend hours browsing such jewellery hawked on pavements.
The traffic came to a screeching halt and the faceless multitudes shuffling along the pavements actually paused to turn and look at the cause of it all.
As we headed out for a run this afternoon we noticed that the pavement directly next to my gate had been cordoned off and there was a policeman and a policewoman standing guard over it.
The sun is beating down, but where are the local television reporters frying eggs on the pavement, announcing that ‘the weathermen say there's more good weather to come’.
Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.
He slumped, the gun falling to the pavement and his body following in an unconscious heap.
Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
A black cab drew in to the pavement a few yards ahead of them.
It was a day to make your spirit sink as Dundee shivered in the icy squalls of rain that repeatedly doused its pavements and tenements.
I go to the brasserie underneath all the time, and that's fun, because you can sit on the pavement for lunch and see who's going past.
A repair crew have completed the updating of water traps in the centre of town, which were not level with the pavement since it was raised many years ago.
There should be a clean section, a uniform base, the material pumped in with binder, a road roller run over it for compaction and a smooth pavement at the end of the repair.
Shopkeepers have renovated their premises, roads have been widened, pavements are cleared for pedestrians.
A mortar burst on the pavement, scattering a group of medics.
But the findings were met with a mixed reaction from lunchtime drinkers in the pavement bars and cafes of Manchester yesterday.
One picture appeared to show clumps of hair on the pavement afterwards. Times, Sunday Times
The sound of feet slapping against the pavement echoed around me, ringing in my ears.
These cliff-like structures tower above the pavement, presenting a lavish display of cut-stone decoration and detail.
Focus is gliding effortlessly away from the pavement and rising quietly and smoothly to cruising speed in the complete absence of both smoke and unpleasant noises. Times, Sunday Times
The keen edge cut through his glove easily and into his hand, blood seeping from the cut and dripping onto the pavement.
Deicing chemicals are used to get ice off pavements, sidewalks and other surfaces by lowering the melting point of the ice.
Tank tracks had torn up the pavement and there were gaping holes in several houses.
The pavement ended and I wound through potholes and deep ruts wider than three of my tires put together.
The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.
A 22-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after his car mounted the pavement and struck a pedestrian.
While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.
The pavement reflects heat on a hot day.
Four men in a stolen red Vauxhall Cavalier attacked the stand-alone cash machine by placing a metal chain around it and pulling it out onto the pavement.
The city of Nanjing's second bridge across the Yangtze River features the first use of an epoxy asphalt deck pavement in China and one of the longest cable-stayed spans in the world.
Then I noticed a young family huddled together on the pavement.
We'll just park on the pavement. The Sun
She was trapped under the wheels of the car which mounted the pavement and pushed her through a fence as she was walking home with her mother.
The roads and pavements of these cul-de-sacs are quasi-private places, gated communities without gates.
The seat was higher then and he basically “locomoted” with his feet on the pavement. Big Wheel | clusterflock
She was hit by a speeding car which mounted the pavement as she was walking to the shops.
Water ingress, whether it has a high salt content or not, is the principal cause of pavement failure.
There are not enough drop kerbs and crossings and the pavements are not wide enough in places.
The pavement reflects heat on a hot day.
He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
And anyway, these protesters shouldn't be allowed to clutter up the pavements.
Many cyclists choose to dismount and walk, cycle along the pavement or make a long detour up and down the city's notorious hills. Times, Sunday Times
How is it that you can walk the same streets and avenues every day of your life, and never walk over some squares of pavement twice?
Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard.
It is blindingly obvious that the pavements and kerbs have not been swept for years.
She bellyflopped flat down onto the pavement.
Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement.
The sound of rain pattering on the pavement added to my feeling of hopelessness.
The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening. Yama: the pit
Basingstoke could become the latest town to install urinals that rise from the pavement in a bid to tackle the problem of late-night revellers relieving themselves in shop doorways.
Another sharp report split the night, and the second bullet from a sniper rifle ricocheted off the pavement to my immediate right.
In the court a portion of the marble pavement is made to represent a pachisi or chess board, and it is said the game was played with slave girls, who were used instead of the customary chessmen. Travels in the Far East
Dowel bars are used in jointed plain concrete pavements to provide load transfer, which reduces faulting and improves performance.
Following a seismic retrofit, windows were carved into the concrete street facade to reveal the activities within and shed a welcoming glow onto the pavement at night.
The autumn leaves have been composting on the pavements ready to succour the soon-to-be emerging weed seedlings.
I fell, at great speed, full length on to the pavement and damaged my face badly.
This raises concern about the accuracy and application of non-destructive deflection testing for diagnosis and prediction of pavement performance.
Those driving vehicles on unlit roads with no pavements must take this into account, be prepared that they might encounter pedestrians and be able to avoid them. Times, Sunday Times
As I stepped onto the pavement, a thunderous roar ripped across the sky and the crowds looked up shouting oohs and aahs normally reserved for local council firework displays.
We now see many bars and establishments in a number of areas around New Zealand where smokers congregate outside, and as we walk past we see dog-ends littering the pavements.
The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.
Well, when you're plodding along with your stick and your wonky knees, walking further on hard pavements than you ought, you're entitled to direct some small spite at the drivers who've stolen your space, aren't you?
Plaques and stones dotted along pavements and hidden in backstreets commemorate those who died, and those family lines that were ended by the bomb.
The Pall Mall pavement was deserted ; the very red - jackets had gone out of town.
She had just waved her off on to the No 66 to Maynooth and was standing against the wall of the Clarence Hotel when the bus came tearing along the pavement.
You got to be careful when the pavements are frosty cos you can slip and hurt yourself.
At closing time he reeled out of the pub and fell down on the pavement.
The sky collapses and hangs like grey laundry 20ft over the shining pavement. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
A light fall rain is dampening the pavement outside as I prepare this last ORBIT issue for 1998.
Fly ash can be used for constructing different layers of road pavement.
The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. Les Miserables
The section start and end positions were indicated with marker posts on the side of the road plus a steel rod was driven into the pavement on the centre line.
Thanks to its basting heat, any old pocket of draughty pavement can now boast a rickety table and chairs.
The quaint heptahedral lamps threw splashed shimmers of topaz colour across the laky pavement. Pipefuls
On the day of the switch, they formed a procession, piled all their goods on wheelbarrows and handcarts, and returned to Pavement where they set up their stalls.
Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads.
Rainwater harvesting also lessens local erosion and flooding caused by impervious cover such as pavement and roof.
Crustaceous materials such as pavement often must be ripped and removed to expose the earth beneath and permit its excavation.
Sand on beaches, concrete pavements and snow also reflect up to 40% of the harmful ultraviolet rays.
It may be the snowboard in the garage, the shortboard gathering dust under the beloved longboard, or the huge gas-sucking 4x4 truck which has never been off pavement.
But note that there are some long stretches where the roadbed is not that great, with the top inch or so of pavement peeling badly, especially in the right-hand lane. Toll roads from Nogales to Tepic
He was charged with riding a motor vehicle on a pavement. The Sun
Footage shows a bearded man sat on the pavement with a woman standing over him. The Sun
I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls.
The pavement reflects heat on a hot day.
Though Mr Bloxham defended the decision to clear the pavements on Friday - in the aftermath of what he described as the coldest two day period - he said that that didn't "assail the problems people had" in the freezing conditions. News round-up
If it had wheels, it is the sort of vehicle you would cruise around town in on a Saturday night with the stereo blasting and your mates cajoling the girls on the pavement.
He said the grant was used for programmes such as filling potholes, repairing pavements and improving footpaths in the borough.
Was that a dog rolling on the pavement or a newspaper blown by the wind?
And there are a lot more stalls of trinkets, puffed rice and coconuts on the pavement: Proof of burgeoning demand.
October 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed all civic agencies in the capital to expeditiously remove concrete tiles and slabs around trees, so that trees can "breathe" and concretisation of pavements does not kill them. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
However, we do realise that the fundamental cause of claims is that a number of repairs are needed for roads and pavements.
With a new concrete overlay, however, the mile-long, two-lane pavement was placed in 20 calendar days.
I asked who will clean up the cigarette butts, and who will provide ashtrays for people standing on the pavement and smoking.
And I'm glad I did, because not only do I feel like I'm riding a new bike, but there's also still enough residual knobbiness left for them to make that meditative Om-like humming sound on the pavement, thus reinvigorating my sun-baked soul. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dog Days
At the war memorial it was chock-a-block with people standing on the pavement and even in the road.
The car mounted the pavement and crashed into a lamp post.
In this heat i cant help but cast my mind to thoughts of sticky chewing gum on a pavement, in the blearing sun, having found its way to the bottom a boots sole, nice! on July 1, 2009 at 3: 52 pm | Reply sheriff roscoe. p.coltrane Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Most days, the child is deposited on the pavement across the road as the mother sorts through the garbage.
Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads.

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