How to Use pave over in a Sentence

pave over

phrasal verb
Definition of pave overnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Natural wetlands soak up that pollution, but most have been filled in and paved over.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Essentially, Google is paving over the potholes in its wearable road map for an overall smoother user experience.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 13 June 2023
  • The business of growing, processing, and transporting these resource-intense products paves over more wildlife habitats and increases the likelihood of a pathogen spreading from animals to humans.
    — Sonia Shah, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Real estate is another way to pave over the past; no developer wants to confront office tenants and riverfront residents with shrill reminders of ugliness.
    — Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Total gallons per capita alone, which tallies water use across almost all sectors of city life, risks paving over nuances and leading to dubious comparisons in efficiency.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
  • And sprawling human development has already paved over many habitats that used to reliably burst into spectacular shades of yellow, purple and blazing orange.
    — Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Houston’s city council did approve some new regulations to address flooding risk, but people are still building homes in floodplains and paving over wetlands that buffer flooding, in an effort to accommodate the city’s booming population.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 July 2024
  • But historians, preservationists and genealogists contend that many graves, particularly those of African Americans, were left behind and paved over as the property was turned over to business and industry.
    — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2024

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