Sentences with 'paved'
Example sentences and phrases with the word paved and other words derived from it.
• « The city of Cordoba in Spain was a glorious metropolis, larger and more prosperous than any in Europe and any but Baghdad in the Arab world itself - it had a population of 100,000, paved streets, street lamps and even indoor plumbing in the houses of the wealthy. »
• « Two other advances in transportation are often overlooked when considering industrialisation: paved roads and canals. »
• « Although countless inventors had paved the way for that discovery, their devices (given strange names such as vitascope, fregoligraph, panopticon, phototachygraph and andersonoscopograph) were mostly toys that soon tired the public. Edison's machine, the kinetoscope, was not perfect either, as the pleasure of seeing the characters move was marred by the annoying jumps in the image. »
• « Opposition to James II, led by the English Whig party, overthrew the king in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689. This paved the way for the Protestant reign of William of Orange and his wife Mary (James's Protestant daughter). »