pavement
(chiefly, UK, Irish, South Africa, Canada, Mid-Atlantic US, countable) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
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Pavement - Range Life MV: Scott Blen Now streaming on ballsack.tv #music #ballsacktv #ballsackradio
I was born to run away from anything good, an escape artist’s son with sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
❌ Pavement parking - no improvement on this & alarmingly the mayoral candidate for Labour has used his introduction of pavement parking in Plaistow as an example of the good work he did as a councillor…
Three Horses Tended by Men; Stone Pavement (recto); Horses and Figures in a Landscape (verso) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/485525
Successfully evade life-threatening injury when a 1.2 tonne car mounted and drove along a pavement in direct pursuit of him. Why, what did you see?
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(chiefly, UK, Irish, South Africa, Canada, Mid-Atlantic US, countable) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
“I want to throw my LG out a window multiple times until it's nothing but a paste on the pavement below that's how much I like LG”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Woman rushed to hospital after Aberdeen motorbike hit-and-run A motorbike is seen speeding towards the woman before striking her on the pavement on Garthdee Drive, Aberdeen”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Interesting one to deal with. Apparently single and double yellow lines extend back across the pavement to the end of the public highway. But apparently that same rule doesn't apply to the zig zags of zebra crossings. Needs a bollard or two as ticketing might be difficult?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(now, chiefly, in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
“The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will conduct a public meeting to discuss two proposed pavement improvement projects on State Highway 154 and State Highway 136 in Sauk County on May 18.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I always take a shortcut straight over these pavement fountains, but am always terrified they're going to turn them on when I do and I'll end up getting squirted up the bum.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Glass on the pavement under my shoe Without you is all my life amounts to (always make me think of you)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“MSP at centre of Holyrood spycam court case ‘almost hit pedestrian on pavement while drink-driving’”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ariana Grande - Petal ꕤ｡˚⋆♡ Amazon exclusive pavement pressing amzn.to/4utDIrY #ArianaGrande #Petal #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #VinylSky #hectorlistensto🎧”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(now, chiefly, North America) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and...
“Pavement - Range Life MV: Scott Blen Now streaming on ballsack.tv #music #ballsacktv #ballsackradio”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I was born to run away from anything good, an escape artist’s son with sun-drenched pavement in my blood.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“❌ Pavement parking - no improvement on this & alarmingly the mayoral candidate for Labour has used his introduction of pavement parking in Plaistow as an example of the good work he did as a councillor…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Three Horses Tended by Men; Stone Pavement (recto); Horses and Figures in a Landscape (verso) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/485525”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Successfully evade life-threatening injury when a 1.2 tonne car mounted and drove along a pavement in direct pursuit of him. Why, what did you see?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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