Sentence examples for under the pavement from inspiring English sources

They're the ships stuck under the pavement".

It was always parkland under the pavement; it remained legally a park.

The gaping cracks are allowing more water to flow under the pavement, which exacerbates the frost heaving.

Meanwhile, I can almost hear the bits buzzing by at lightning speed just under the pavement outside.

In some houses was a kind of chapel in which the family god was worshipped and under the pavement of which members of the family were buried.

This weight restriction exists because the substructure under the pavement along Route 50 is several decades old and cannot support heavy trucks.

The vaults under the pavements of the churches and the small spaces of open ground surrounding them were crammed with coffins.

This is intentional: unlike the old pavements, which often featured external – and lethal – electric wires, sewerage and water pipes, the new roads accommodate all utilities under the pavements.

Still screaming out from under the pavements!" If there is a Holocaust memorial in Feldman's work, it is "Rothko Chapel," which was written in 1971, for Rothko's octagonal array of paintings in Houston.

Ford Madox Ford, in The Soul of London, lamented a century ago that, "little by little, the Londoner comes to forget that his London is built upon real earth: he forgets that under the pavements there are hills, forgotten water courses, springs, and marshlands".

Where Parisian graffiti in 1968 declared, "Under the pavements, the beach," Tati shows that within soulless palaces of consumption such as the Royal Garden, there are hidden zones of spontaneous pleasure that are the people's for the taking – although it helps to have Hulot around to hasten the architectural damage that makes them possible.