: something that suggests a pavement (as in flatness, hardness, and extent of surface)
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 WebOfficials 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.—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 See all Example Sentences for pavement
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pavimentum, from pavire
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