Sentence examples for dark pavements from inspiring English sources

When I was there, it felt alternative - a place of little nightclubs down steps in cellars and old gas lamps pooled yellow light on dark pavements - so that you almost expected Marlene Dietrich to appear.

Huge palm trees loom over the dark pavement.

Road improvements like heat-absorbing dark pavement alter conditions in the ground beneath, particularly if a lens of ice lies close to the surface.

Every now and then, a gun would sound and a tear-gas canister would pop down onto the dark pavement, scattering the crowd until someone threw it back.

Urban heat islands are not inevitable, but the product of dark roofs, black pavement, and loss of vegetation.

The pavement was simply broadened with dark paving indicating the rather narrow strip allotted to cyclists.

As on the Rio beach the pavements at Lincoln Road are animated by strong patterns of light and dark paving and abundant sub-tropical growth.

Experimental results indicate that the composite embankment can effectively cool the underlying permafrost and raise the permafrost table under the separated high-grade highway with a wide and dark-colored pavement, whereas the unprotected embankment cannot.

Her voice has the texture of pavement — dark, rough, reassuring, consistent.

We see him jump, and then crumpled on the pavement, dark blood flowing from his head.

Away from the freshwater fish tanks and living walls of the upstairs offices, 23ft below the pavement, dark forces are at work.