Sentence examples for beating the pavement from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, parents are beating the pavement online.

"I was cold-calling stores, beating the pavement, sending them catalogs," she said.

While everyone thinks that the designer is living it up at the Ritz, he or she is more likely to be beating the pavement like a well-dressed Willy Loman.

Mr. Carrington's sons David Jr., Blackshear and Freddie are now beating the pavement to find new customers because it is unlikely that the upscale restaurants in New Orleans and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast that bought their products are going to be back in business soon.

"With what's going on in the country, we are out there beating the pavement letting people know what we have to offer.

Porsche's chassis magicians used everything in their bag of tricks to keep this two-ton beast dancing on its Teutonic tiptoes; the car does not become one with the road, it beats the pavement into submission.

The campaign is betting that the technology will vastly expand the number of supporters who will beat the pavement for Mr. Obama in the final 100 days before the election in November.

On his second research trip, Mr. Smith said he traveled with an elderly man of mixed Japanese and Dutch parentage who had lived in Tokyo through the prewar period and who agreed to beat the pavement with him and help him buttonhole ordinary people on whatever crossed his mind.

In the opening section, "Rubric," dancers cross the stage in brisk walks, echoing a motif familiar to city dwellers: the beat-the-pavement energy of urban existence.

The ball beating against the pavement can enrapture anyone in any city at any time.

In one of the most incendiary developments, video cameras captured soldiers stripping the clothes off women they were beating on the pavement of Tahrir Square.