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
In some cases, the ministry even paid for the paving of roads and the construction of buildings at settlements for which the Defense Ministry had issued demolition orders.
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Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Crews will get to work installing electrical, fire suppression, and drainage systems, barriers, signage, lighting, deck paving, pavement markings, stressing stay cables, and completing the bridge's multiuse path, officials said.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2024
Nighttime grinding and paving will start on Sunday and continue through June 3.
—Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 14 May 2024
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.
—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
Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Crews will get to work installing electrical, fire suppression, and drainage systems, barriers, signage, lighting, deck paving, pavement markings, stressing stay cables, and completing the bridge's multiuse path, officials said.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2024
Nighttime grinding and paving will start on Sunday and continue through June 3.
—Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 14 May 2024
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.
—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
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“Paving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paving. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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