How to Use pave over in a Sentence

pave over

phrasal verb

• In 1965, the site was paved over and used as a parking lot.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• So the old stone and brick must go, paved over by concrete.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• The gardens of the houses had been paved over and there seemed to be more space for parking.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 30 May 2024
• The town that was once a Black utopia would now be paved over into a runway.
  — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
• The entrance will be paved over for easier access and a Speedy Pass lane has been put in.
  — Aaron Flaum, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2024
• Their habitats have been paved over, burned or transformed.
  — Karrigan Börk, The Conversation, 13 May 2025
• PennDOT has hired a contractor to backfill the gap in the roadway so it can be paved over.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 17 June 2023
• But these moves are not about paving over the Rose Garden or renaming the Kennedy Center.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
• The old slave jail, the auction blocks, even the African burying grounds were paved over long ago and largely forgotten.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• In October, the fish were evicted and the broken sidewalk paved over.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
• Images show the process of paving over the Rose Garden, first with construction crews digging up the grass, then poles and mud in the garden area.
  — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
• What does Utah stand to gain and lose as wetlands and open space get paved over by port development?
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Instead of paving over fields, this project keeps the land producing food and fiber for Connecticut.
  — Nathaniel Trojanoski, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
• There are about 2 billion parking spaces in the country, enough square feet to pave over the states of Connecticut and Vermont.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025
• Natural wetlands soak up that pollution, but most have been filled in and paved over.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• That's because certain local creeks have been rerouted, buried or paved over.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Kumeyaay nation is also entering the fray because the project’s parking paves over one of the Kumeyaay’s cultural heritage sites.
  — Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
• Their path to the trophy was virtually painless in these playoffs, with bumps paved over along the way and the rest of the NBA’s true titans having already fallen.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• More recently, millions of acres have been paved over to build cities, some of them rising up virtually overnight.
  — Richard Schiffman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• In the decades since, much of the watershed has been paved over, and expanding development has encroached along the channels in many areas.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• The lot, paved over in the early 2000s and now owned by Texas freight company Abram Expedited, shares a fence line with a block of single-family homes.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
• In Utrecht, in the Netherlands, a 12-lane motorway was replaced with canals and green space, restoring the original waterways that had been paved over years ago for roads.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The building boom continues to pave over raw earth that once soaked up the rainfall, another key driver of urban flooding.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Most of these killing fields were simply paved over as Europeans sought to turn a new page — leaving the daunting task of finding the dead for future generations.
  — Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Lance Neal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• In addition to paving over the grass, the project reportedly includes audio and visual upgrades, as well as the installation of two new flag poles on the North and South Lawns.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 11 June 2025
• Other problems facing Cannes, though, won’t be as easily paved over.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 May 2023
• When those industries dried up by the 1950s, most of Hawaii’s agricultural land was paved over for tourism development.
  — Jessica MacHado, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
• But like most of the port projects proposed to date, the site includes some of the state’s few remaining wetlands, which have rapidly disappeared across the West as they get paved over for development.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• When those green spaces are paved over, there’s a higher chance that stormwater will run into beaches, instead of being absorbed into the ground.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 13 July 2023
• But decades of sprawling urbanization also drove up Houston’s risk of flooding as absorbent wetlands were paved over and more homes were built in flood zones.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024