Examples of pavement in a Sentence
He stopped the car just off the pavement.
The summer heat rose off the pavement.
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General Motors’ autonomous car company, Cruise, has reportedly agreed to pay an $8-million to $12-million settlement to a woman who was hospitalized after getting dragged along the pavement by a self-driving taxi in San Francisco last year.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Roughly six feet of the pavement and a portion of a masonry retaining wall that supported the highway fell into the ocean about 170 below the road, according to his office.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Roughly six feet of the pavement and a portion of a masonry retaining wall that supported the highway fell into the ocean about 170 below the road, according to his office.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for pavement
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“Pavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pavement. Accessed 23 May. 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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