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Example sentences for "pavement"

Lexicographically close words:
pauvre; pauvres; pavane; pave; paved; pavements; paven; paves; pavilion; pavilions
  1. When she mounted the steps and rang the bell, he crossed the road and walked along the pavement by the gardens in the middle of the square.

  2. She did not at once see a hansom, and therefore she walked for a few yards along the broad pavement of the Bayswater Road, where at that hour not many passers-by were to be encountered.

  3. He saw the tall slight figure stop at an iron gate, push it open, and walk up the flagged pavement to the door of a dingy but highly respectable-looking house.

  4. In the flickering green of the square below some children were flitting about like white butterflies, and the pavement was crowded with people on their way to the Park.

  5. Close to the pavement was standing a little yellow brougham, which, for some reason or other, attracted my attention.

  6. My blood ran back, My shaking knees against each other knocked; On the cold pavement down I fell entranced, And so unfinished left the horrid scene.

  7. My blood ran back, My shaking knees against each other knocked; On the cold pavement down I fell entranced, And so, unfinished, left the horrid scene.

  8. A curtain of Indian beading made a sound like dead leaves driven over a dry pavement by the wind.

  9. He walked back in the drizzle to Prince Albert’s Place and paced the pavement under the black walls of the warehouses.

  10. He wondered at the great white stucco houses of Park Lane, standing back from the wide pavement with an air of pompous reticence.

  11. Gereon, and in one of the chapels is a mosaic pavement laid in the time of the Empress Helena.

  12. The walls are encrusted with their skulls, and, in the subterranean church, the pavement and walls are formed by the tomb-stones covering the holy dust.

  13. So saying, from the pavement he half rose, Slowly, with pain, reclining on his arm, And looking wistfully with wide blue eyes As in a picture.

  14. The lovers did not venture into the ruined church itself but walked round the pavement of the cloisters under the arches.

  15. On his way along the streaming pavement he again had the sensation of being followed, and felt for the revolver, with which he had very wisely provided himself.

  16. On reaching the pavement he remained standing by the side of the throne, and cried in a hollow tremulous voice: "I have ceased to reign, let a better than I take my place.

  17. Yet lest the cold surface of the pavement should chill the feet of the damsels, rows of tiny sandals stood ready there that they might bind them upon their feet and so walk from one end of the room to the other at their ease.

  18. Seeing a crowd gathered on the pavement in one place, I stopped and saw lying prone upon her face, a wretched creature whose skirt had fallen from her body.

  19. I am greatly mistaken, I can hear the clatter of hoofs on the stone pavement of the road.

  20. Marke, how all the pavement was set with coloured stones, and all the rood or loft of the church double gilded over.

  21. And o'er the pavement floats the dreadful tide-- Her breast all gore, with lamentable cries, The bleeding innocent Cassandra dies!

  22. Now on the threshold of the dome they stood, And heard a voice resounding through the wood: Placed at her loom within, the goddess sung; The vaulted roofs and solid pavement rung.

  23. And dash'd like dogs against the stony floor: The pavement swims with brains and mingled gore.

  24. Thus speaking, from the ground the sword he took Which Agelaus' dying hand forsook: Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped; Along the pavement roll'd the muttering head.

  25. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide; Two marble doors unfold on either side; Sacred the south, by which the gods descend; But mortals enter at the northern end.

  26. Upon this foundation was placed a pavement of large stones, which were firmly set in cement.

  27. Then, as the man obeyed he wrenched it from his grasp, threw it to the pavement and grasping the fugitive by the shoulders, ran him straight up to the watering trough.

  28. Frank had picked up the coat from the pavement where Vincent had flung it and he now offered it to him.

  29. Fire has ravaged their beautiful city, soldiers of the color of their servants, guard the crossings and pace the pavement with bayoneted muskets.

  30. In England, I saw two men and a woman suffer death on the common sidewalk; just as if we were to hang people in New York on the pavement before the Tombs.

  31. Every afternoon when the pavement was unusually patronized by young officers, these women would sally out, promenade in crinoline, silk stockings, and saucy hoods, and the crowd would fall respectfully back to let them pass.

  32. The water splashed on to the pavement round the well, reflected the rich colours of cloth and limb and patches of cobalt from the sky.

  33. They brought with them strange tokens in shapes like marriage cakes but in brilliant colours, gold, emerald, pink, and vermilion; these they placed on the pavement in front of them.

  34. On the pavement are some favoured chickens and some children and a dog or two, and here and there devout people in silks, kneeling on the flags with folded hands repeating the precepts of the Perfect Law of Gautama Buddha.

  35. On the walls was depicted a poet reading his verses to his friends; and in the pavement was inserted a small and most exquisite mosaic, typical of the instructions given by the director of the stage to his comedians.

  36. Down fell the ruin, echoing along the street, and riving the solid pavement where it crashed!

  37. We saw, within twenty feet of us, two dark figures lying on the pavement grid in a black patch of shadow where the mailtube came down in a curve and disappeared into the tunnel wall.

  38. It lay on the metal pavement of the ground; the smell of it was dank, tomb-like.

  39. He tapped the wood pavement with his stick, admired the effects of Wallace's philanthropy, stopped before the enamelled street-signs, and grew enthusiastic over the traffic in the Rue de Vaugirard.

  40. She also took the long needle out of her hair and hid it carefully in a corner, in a crevice between the pavement and the wall, lest it should at any time fall from its place and bring suspicion upon her.

  41. Jack Mount, jumping up on his bench; and the rolling cheers echoed from balcony to pavement till the throng went wild and even the sober Quakers flung up their broad-brimmed hats.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pavement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adobe; asphalt; base; basement; basis; bed; bedding; bedrock; brick; carpet; cement; clapboard; clinker; cobblestone; concrete; cover; curb; curbstone; deck; doormat; earth; firebrick; flag; flagstone; floor; flooring; footing; foundation; fundament; fundamental; gravel; ground; grounds; groundwork; macadam; masonry; mat; material; mortar; parquet; pavement; plaster; principle; radical; roofing; rudiment; rug; seat; sidewalk; siding; sill; stone; substratum; substructure; surfacing; tile; tiling; underpinning; washboard