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 entrance will be paved over for easier access and a Speedy Pass lane has been put in.
  — Aaron Flaum, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2024
• PennDOT has hired a contractor to backfill the gap in the roadway so it can be paved over.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 17 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Today, the four plots slated for development, already owned by Cook, are largely paved over with parking lots.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
• Make drivers wait another 90 seconds or so, or pave over one of L.A.’s most significant sites?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• One travels to a new city to correct assumptions, to pave over impressionistic fragments with the real deal.
  — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
• Some parts of the South revolted against integration by paving over or draining their pools rather than integrating them.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 22 July 2023
• And so on, the whack-a-mole of a life unfinished, a body never laid to rest, neither created nor destroyed, only molded into tinkering lamppost, the Shell on Scott, the paved and paved over.
  — Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• As countries rebuilt after the war, 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
• Suburban sprawl has paved over many flower farms and climate change has overheated remaining land.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 18 May 2025
• His coping mechanism of deflecting shame through humor works only when used to pave over his many inadequacies.
  — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025