Sentence examples for being paved over from inspiring English sources

Quietly, Moss describes what could be any of a dozen countries right now, being paved over by war or commerce.

That's where most cities developed, where rich soils are now being paved over for roads and suburbs, and where water supplies are being polluted or overexploited.

His goal was to keep jewels of nature from being paved over or turned into housing tracts in the postwar boom.

How good, then, to find wrinkles in time that crack the asphalt's smoothness, places where a few human dead have resisted the insult of being paved over and forgotten.

His intent was not to mock but, rather, to celebrate the amateur aesthetic of the early Internet — a frontier that is being paved over by the homogenized tools of "advanced" Web design.

I'm trying to find something hopeful, some kind of truth". His intent was not to mock but, rather, to celebrate the amateur aesthetic of the early Internet a frontier that is being paved over by the homogenized tools of "advanced" Web design.

But almost all of this historic highway has been paved over, largely as Route 9.

John Betjeman once lamented that the whole of this "Metroland" would be paved over, leaving no room for buttercups.

"I can't wait to see what's under that ground — what bits and pieces of the past were paved over," she said.

In 1843 Valongo was paved over by a grander dock to welcome a Bourbon princess who came to marry Pedro II, the country's 19th-century emperor.

There seems to be a slightly higher propensity for self-consciously virtuous books to be written by people whose personalities have been paved over by their superegos.