Examples of pavement in a Sentence
He stopped the car just off the pavement.
The summer heat rose off the pavement.
Recent Examples on the Web
Officials said many burn patients may have passed out on the pavement due to dehydration, intoxication or other factors that lengthened their exposure and complicated their treatment.
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Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The stories have faded as the marshes and the camps have disappeared under suburban pavements.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
The team then married this data with land-use data showing where in LA County there’s good tree cover, which reflects heat, and where there are impermeable surfaces like pavement, which absorb it.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 May 2024
Around the time Lauren had collapsed on the pavement?
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
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Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The stories have faded as the marshes and the camps have disappeared under suburban pavements.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
The team then married this data with land-use data showing where in LA County there’s good tree cover, which reflects heat, and where there are impermeable surfaces like pavement, which absorb it.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 May 2024
Around the time Lauren had collapsed on the pavement?
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
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“Pavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pavement. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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pavement
noun
pave·ment
ˈpāv-mənt 
1
: a paved surface (as of a street)
2
: the material with which something is paved
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