paved English

Meaning paved meaning

What does paved mean?

paved

— adjective covered with a firm surface

Synonyms paved synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as paved?

paved English » English

sheathed

sealed

oiled

macadamized

inlaid

cobbled

coated

backed

Topics paved topics

What do people use paved to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

• What types of roads are there?
  road street lane path footpath way avenue boulevard highway freeway thoroughfare divided highway paved road dirt road improved road unimproved road

Examples paved examples

How do I use paved in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The street is paved with asphalt.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

The path of least resistance is paved only at the beginning.

The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.

There was once a merchant, so rich that he might have paved the whole street where he lived and an alley besides with pieces of silver.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

The road is paved with asphalt.

Tom's sister paved the way for him to become a lawyer.

They've finally paved our street.

Hell is paved with promises.

The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains.

They have paved the on-ramp.

Movie subtitles

Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.

The road to Reno is paved with suspicions.

When I think that road might have been paved with your good intentions.

I will trot tomorrow a mile and my way shall be paved with English faces.

Paved with what, then?

Something about an old road ending and a new one starting, all paved with stars.

A letter demanding that the road be paved.

The streets haven't exactly been paved with gold for me.

Hearken to me. If my husband the king and my son the doctor walketh near upon these paved paths and heareth what thou sayest, thy life would not be worth a plug nickel!

This road isn't even paved!

You know, he's paved almost every street in St. Louis.

Most didn't find streets paved with gold.

Sometimes we seemed to be on a paved causeway, sometimes on asphalt, but there was nothing to tell me where I was.

The path to your goal is paved with danger.

God, it's like a city paved with gold!

The first austronauts have paved the way into Space.

Paved highway right to your door.

All paved with diamonds and gold?

No streets paved with gold either.

It means we've paved the way to a controlled thermonuclear reaction.

For what you charge for a bag of cement this town ought to be paved with gold.

Hearken to me, if my husband the king and my son the doctor walketh near upon these paved paths and heareth what thou sayest, thy life would not be worth a plug nickel!

You know, he's paved almost every street in St. Louis, and he wants you to come home with us.

The road behind them had been rocky and uneven but we all felt the road ahead for Rose and Stanley would be in the best of repair paved as it would be with joy in each other sharing with friends their unfailing good humor and laughter.

I will trot to-morrow a mile, and my way shall be paved with English faces.

Paved with what, then? Stars.

I said this would be a night to remember, that it would bring me all I ever wanted. Something about an old road ending and a new one starting, all paved with stars.

Or when it washed up on the paved bank where we were just now.

The road to damnation is paved with them whiskey bottles!

Where vines are tied with branches of sausages,..and where rivers of vernaccia and moscatello wine..flow through villages paved with cheese of Piacenza.

Those days, the streets of our Unchansk, crooked and paved with wood, were pierced through with icy winds.

Do you know how one day the road was built here. which the next day saw the Napoleon retreat. and was paved later on?

The way people act around here. - you'd think the streets were paved with gold.

They made some ugly mistakes, but they also paved the way for things we take for granted.

Tracks from a heavy truck ran out when they hit the paved road.

News and current affairs

The liberal reformers who have been jailed could have paved the way for a peaceful transition to a reformed Saudi Arabia.

It also paved the way for a parliament in which over a quarter of the members are women - this in a country where, just five years ago, women were not even allowed to leave the house without a male relative.

I recently visited a remote Dong village in the mountains of Quizho, one of China's poorest provinces, miles away from the nearest paved road; yet it had electricity, and with electricity had come not just television, but the internet.

Mobile phones, local wireless Internet, and more paved roads could do much to break the economic isolation of Africa's villages.

Before the international community established the ICC, there were two ad hoc tribunals - one for the former Yugoslavia and one for Rwanda. Their work paved the way for the ICC.

For the EU's handling - so far - of this relatively minor issue shows that the road to EU membership appears to be paved with hypocritical intentions.

Historians of Europe will probably one day conclude that it is the Holocaust and Europe's relations with its Jews that paved the way for the opening of this process of repentance.

But it is certainly possible to describe how the road to hell is paved, whatever the intentions.

It suffers from the fact that most of its population lives in the rural interior, without paved roads to reach ports and facilitate access to international trade.

To Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama betrayed Israel when he sacrificed Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, and paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power.

City and government officials should ensure that parks and paved paths become as ubiquitous to a city's landcape as parking spaces.

The Israelis will claim to have conceded nothing essential; Abbas's Fatah will claim to have secured a road paved with gold.

Globalization has paved the way to a world dominated by the dictatorship of emotions - and of ignorance.

A Security Council resolution and international negotiation efforts had paved the way to end the 20-year war in southern Sudan - a breakthrough that in fact led to a deal signed by the government and southern rebels in January 2005.

Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.

Wen's critique paved the way for China to face its rebalancing imperatives head on.

His presidency paved the way for hers, but she is a leader in her own right.

By contrast, the Treaty of Versailles, too harsh to be honored and too weak to be enforced, paved the way for World War II.

As my Harvard colleague Jeff Frieden has written, this paved the path for two distinct forms of extremism.

True, there are beautifully paved roads all around, but they go nowhere.

He had ruled Kenya for 13 years before a move in 1991 to reintroduce multi-party democracy paved the way for an election the following year.

If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930's, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.

Unlike the insoluble mess that he inherits in the broader Middle East, the road to a comprehensive solution of the Arab-Israeli dispute has already been paved, and no wheels would have to be reinvented.

This has paved the way for next-generation pharmacies.

Historically, the road to disaster has usually been paved with good intentions and grave errors of judgment.