How to Use paving stone in a Sentence

paving stone

noun
  • At last, a few gleams of paving stone showed through the murk in the lane below.
    Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But like a paving stone above a cluster of mushrooms, the glaciers acted like a lid, preventing the volcanoes from growing too tall.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The star of the excavation was a Roman-era marble bathtub, along with a fragment of a male statue's torso that was later reused as a paving stone.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In Ephesus, archaeologists found a Roman-era marble bathtub and a fragment of a male statue that had been reused as a paving stone.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The remains of a brothel sit opposite the library, and a nearby carving on a paving stone on Curetes Street is believed to be one of the world’s earliest advertisements.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026

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