Examples of paving in a Sentence
The driveway was covered with concrete paving.
They had to break up the paving to lay a new gas line.
Recent Examples on the Web
The budget doesn’t sharply increase funding for street paving, something city officials have called for since a comprehensive evaluation of the condition of city roads was unveiled this winter.
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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
Construction, improvements cause street closures in Hobart Colorado Street at U.S. 30 is currently under construction for safety and drainage improvements and road paving.
—Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
Yet his administration had also auctioned off oil- and gas-drilling rights in nearly two hundred areas; there is talk that Lula may authorize the paving of a five-hundred-mile-long road through the rain forest.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
One taxpayer group wants input on any possible measure
Oct. 22, 2023
Other critics said strong support for the sales tax measure from city labor unions should make voters concerned that much of the money would be spent on employee pay raises, not infrastructure projects and road paving.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
But preserving the sidewalk’s original look — by maintaining and in some places re-establishing the old herringbone and basket-weave paving patterns — is central to the conservancy’s modernization efforts.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Over time, the landscaping planters decorating the pool deck had also become weighed down with more filling and paving than originally designed, increasing the weight load on the slab, according to the presentation.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
Design elements include rainwater capture, native and climate-appropriate plants, plants for habitat, efficient irrigation, permeable paving and the utilization of compost and mulch.
—Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
While the city is not adding projects and costs, crews are expediting projects that have already been budgeted, such as art displays, cleanup efforts on public grounds, road and sidewalk paving, said John Roach, spokesman for Mayor Mike Duggan.
—Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2024
David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
Construction, improvements cause street closures in Hobart Colorado Street at U.S. 30 is currently under construction for safety and drainage improvements and road paving.
—Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
Yet his administration had also auctioned off oil- and gas-drilling rights in nearly two hundred areas; there is talk that Lula may authorize the paving of a five-hundred-mile-long road through the rain forest.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
One taxpayer group wants input on any possible measure
Oct. 22, 2023
Other critics said strong support for the sales tax measure from city labor unions should make voters concerned that much of the money would be spent on employee pay raises, not infrastructure projects and road paving.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
But preserving the sidewalk’s original look — by maintaining and in some places re-establishing the old herringbone and basket-weave paving patterns — is central to the conservancy’s modernization efforts.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Over time, the landscaping planters decorating the pool deck had also become weighed down with more filling and paving than originally designed, increasing the weight load on the slab, according to the presentation.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
Design elements include rainwater capture, native and climate-appropriate plants, plants for habitat, efficient irrigation, permeable paving and the utilization of compost and mulch.
—Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
While the city is not adding projects and costs, crews are expediting projects that have already been budgeted, such as art displays, cleanup efforts on public grounds, road and sidewalk paving, said John Roach, spokesman for Mayor Mike Duggan.
—Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2024
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“Paving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paving. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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