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  • adjective paved; -- of roads. Opposite of unpaved.

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Examples

  • It would be a hard-surfaced square similar to Portland's Pioneer Square or Seattle's Pike Place Market, designed to accommodate markets, festivals and performances.

    The emerging Southwest: Transformation underway Derek Kravitz 2010

  • It would be a hard-surfaced square similar to Portland's Pioneer Square or Seattle's Pike Place Market, designed to accommodate markets, festivals and performances.

    The emerging Southwest: Transformation underway Derek Kravitz 2010

  • Durable, hard-surfaced walls and ceiling are also essential for good acoustical reflections.

    Rip up those carpets! 2009

  • To leave was to chance the unknown once more—that hollow, hard-surfaced place that did not want her, or her child.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • On its face, the mission for the Ospreys was routine: fly from one hard-surfaced runway to another, then back; no dusty landing zone to set down in, no heaving ship deck to land on in the dark.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • On its face, the mission for the Ospreys was routine: fly from one hard-surfaced runway to another, then back; no dusty landing zone to set down in, no heaving ship deck to land on in the dark.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • On its face, the mission for the Ospreys was routine: fly from one hard-surfaced runway to another, then back; no dusty landing zone to set down in, no heaving ship deck to land on in the dark.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Sit in a chair in a room with a hard-surfaced floor linoleum, hardwood, or tile.

    THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009

  • Sit in a chair in a room with a hard-surfaced floor linoleum, hardwood, or tile.

    THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009

  • An electric broom also comes in handy in vacuuming tile and other hard-surfaced floors.

    Central Vacuum Systems 2004

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