How to Use pave over in a Sentence

pave over

verb
  • But not everything has been paved over.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
  • He's paved over the Rose Garden lawn with white stone.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There’s also a private garden, though it has been paved over.
    — Katie McDonough, Curbed, 4 May 2026
  • Resist the urge to simply pave over a rectangle of grass.
    — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 21 May 2026
  • This after paving over of a big section of the Rose Garden.
    — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Nature finds a way to showcase its beauty even in places where humans have paved over miles of landscapes.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
  • While other places paved over their past in the name of progress, Zionsville held onto its history.
    — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
  • These days the road, paved over in China's rush to modernize, lives mostly in memory.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Planted by then-first lady Jackie Kennedy, it has been paved over into a patio.
    — Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • Sheets believes in the power of a group and its members’ enjoyment of each other’s company to help pave over cracks.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • Work finished on paving over the previously grassy lawn of the Rose Garden in recent weeks.
    — Toby Meyjes, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Suburban sprawl also paved over vast stretches of land, funneling more runoff into the system.
    — Nicole Van Lier, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
  • Nowadays, the land surrounding the 67-year-old fruit stand is paved over as cookie-cutter townhomes swallow the area.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
  • But many people who live nearby were upset about the scale of the project and the loss of green space that would result from paving over part of an existing park — and not a large one at that.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Now, Fort Lauderdale’s street art will soon be paved over as well, Trantalis confirmed Saturday.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2026
  • But does flexing your commercial output pave over one of the most polarizing moments a rapper has faced in recent memory?
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In the early 20th century, however, the stream was routed into underground pipes and paved over.
    — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2025
  • If ground-nesting bee habitats are paved over or disturbed, millions of important pollinators could disappear.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Trump made some noticeable changes to the historic garden that borders the Oval Office, including paving over the center section of the lawn with stone tiles.
    — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025
  • School kids who walk to their local orchard in Pendleton Heights to pick pears, figs and pawpaws could soon see the community garden get paved over with a fresh parking lot.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ranchers contend that public lands grazing has ecological benefits, such as preventing nearby private lands from being sold off and paved over.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Mono-causal history winds up paving over the uneven surface of human experience with a layer of ideological asphalt.
    — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • While the cemetery remains intact, the surrounding expansion is a stark reminder of how Charlotte’s rapid growth can easily pave over its own history.
    — Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026
  • This fear of collective consciousness is that which drives the straight path and its state and federal architects to do everything in their power to pave over the work and sanctity of ethnic studies.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Rincon will pave over 1,200 feet of the road and add curbs, gutters and other improvements, Frankel said, and there will be no changes to the adjacent regional park.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • One of the first things Zohran Mamdani did in his inaugural week as mayor was pave over the Big Bump at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Rose Garden renovation, which included paving over the grass and placing tables, with umbrellas, and chairs around the new patio, was completed in early August.
    — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Fans have now been collecting evidence that the alternate world is one where Germany won World War II and paved over America society.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The story began in the late 19th century, when San Francisco paved over its coastal dunes for development, taking with it a tiny, iridescent butterfly known as the Xerces blue.
    — Itay Hod, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The fabled East Wing is gone, the Rose Garden has been paved over for a gaudy, Mar-a-Lago-like patio, and now there’s a mixed martial arts cage on the South Lawn.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026

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