How can a cement sidewalk last for only a few weeks?

From 1907 to 1910 the telephone came to town, a water works system was installed and cement sidewalks constructed.

They might have sprung from the cement sidewalk, so suddenly did those dark men arrive.

Velvet lawns, broken only by cement sidewalks, ran down to the gutters.

A few feet of cement sidewalk edged the north side of the square.

Every drop of blood he'd once had was now on the cracked cement sidewalk.

It's just a weird word stuck in the cement sidewalk that's been here God knows how many years.

What did he have to show for this day except sore feet from traipsing across hard floors and cement sidewalks?

Following the cement sidewalk up to and across the bridge.

There, he thought, staring, along with a handful of other passersby on the cracked cement sidewalk.