Sentence examples for pavements from inspiring English sources

Trees on pavements have been the other big losers in the fight for space on Mumbai's roads.

Now she works for the organisation, like Kanta, reaching out to women living in slums and on pavements.

We abuse drivers, we ride unilluminated in the dark, we use the pavements and - most fiendish of all - refuse to stop at red lights.

As well as being one of the world's most densely populated areas, Mumbai has very little public space: there are virtually no open parks and no riverside, pavements are often full of market stalls, parked cars and potholes (if there is a pavement at all) and scary traffic means running at the side of the road really isn't a sensible option.

Organisations such as SPARC conducted surveys to come up with a cartography of urban poverty – how many people lived in slums, on pavements, by the railway tracks, how long they'd been living there, what basic amenities they had or lacked – that would be the first step towards rehabilitation.

The pitch at Hillsborough is protected by undersoil heating but areas immediately surrounding the stadium have been covered in a thick blanket of snow, making roads and pavements in the vicinity treacherous.

Findlay is the only one who mentions her age, but everyone has something to say – about welfare, the NHS, dirty pavements, tax, even euthanasia.

Further on, the pavements are packed with shacks built with plywood or sometimes bricks, divided into warrens by pieces of cloth and flimsy partitions.

The pavements are occupied by people selling clothes under once-colourful parasols.

Those who live on the pavements have it even worse than slum dwellers, says Arputham.

You see the veggie stalls on pavements, at street corners and under the covered walkways of Havana's elegant, crumbling colonial buildings.