Sentence examples for pavement workers from inspiring English sources

As pieces of the crane slammed to the street, some so hard they became embedded in the pavement, workers poured into the street.

Street vendors still prowl the sidewalks, sharing pavement with construction workers.

Metro trains stopped, pedestrians paused on pavements and office workers stood at their desks.

It is 5 p.m. and the pavement surges with office workers, but Mr. Sheikh sits alone in his empty shop and wrings his hands.

On the coldest nights, Delhi's street workers and pavement dwellers set fire to garbage to keep warm, and these fires are frequent talking points among Indians who seem to regard themselves as stranded between the great, ignorant unwashed on one side and the feckless and feuding city, state, and national governments on the other.

A 1967 photograph taken in Paris shows a man in a suit bizarrely collapsed on the pavement, a hammer-wielding worker stepping over his body, passers-by mesmerized but unhelping, snarled traffic frozen in time.

Like nearly all of us, his 9/11 now is a collection of images that linger, one part the millions of bits of paper floating from the sky to the pavement, another the doomed rescue workers, and another the empty cars left in train station parking lots by commuters who never came home.

Around 2 p.m., two university workers finished washing the pavement and painting a large black square over the area.

To a greater extent than in past European downturns, highly trained white-collar workers are pounding the pavement, too.

Outside, office workers charge down the pavements wearing tailored herringbone jackets over flinty cashmere jumpers, their nails lacquered in iridescent silver or understated greige.

Emergency workers covered bodies on the pavement.