How to Use pavement in a Sentence

pavement

noun

• He stopped the car just off the pavement.
• The summer heat rose off the pavement.
• The guardrail was bent to the pavement, and the fence was ripped open.
  — Colleen Barry and Giada Zampano The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2023
• The video pans across the bridge and the sprawling gap in the pavement.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022
• The tires slapped against the pavement, drained of their air.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The metal bat still laid on the pavement next to a pool of blood.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
• In some places now the pavement is only a few feet from the edge of the bluff.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
• The more traffic, the thicker the pavement needs to be.
  — Mansour Solaimanian, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
• No, that road is not this road where the pavement ends.
  — Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024
• One night her boyfriend beat her to a pulp with her face on the pavement.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The guy fell back to the pavement but then got up running.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
• Down the road, plates, beer cans and a paring knife lay on the pavement.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
• The pavement is complete, the striping is in place and the lights are up, Brightwell said.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2023
• The rear tires couldn't grip the snowy pavement, and the fronts were nearly hub-deep in wet mud.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
• Here’s a good rule of thumb (or paw): Place your hand flat on the pavement.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
• Drive the stakes into the soft ground next to the cement or pavement.
  — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
• The sound of cameras flashing and heels on the pavement play in the background of the recording.
  — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• Blood had flowed onto the pavement from a wound in his head.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Medics tended to a youth who lay on the pavement with a bloody hand.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 July 2024
• He was placed face down on the pavement and handcuffed.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024
• The east half of the day use parking lot will have pavement removed and repaved.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2023
• Since then, members of the public have been able to see, but not step on, the pavement.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Blood pooled on the pavement near a sewer drain in the parking lot.
  — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2022
• This was hot enough to warm the pavement to a hundred and eighty degrees.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
• That’s when bright sunlight reflects off the pavement on the street in front of my house.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 24 Sep. 2022
• Younge was sprawled face-up on the pavement, one arm across his chest and the other stretched out to his side.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Jael was run over by the rear tires of the truck, and her little sister was thrown to the pavement, cops said.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• Moab may be the best place on the planet for off-pavement driving.
  — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• The car’s driver’s side hit Thompson, who was thrown into the far-left lane and hit his head on the pavement, cops said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
• Houston stayed off pavement and spent a couple weeks training in the sand this summer.
  — Cj Moore, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025