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Example sentences for "bicycles"

Lexicographically close words:
bicuspid; bicuspids; bicycle; bicycled; bicyclers; bicycling; bicyclist; bicyclists; bid; bida
  1. Much of our play involved the riding of our tricycles, which placed us under the fire of the neighborhood boys, who were sporting bicycles at considerably younger ages.

  2. He fashioned bicycles in the same manner; later, parts were gathered.

  3. Thank you," she said, as she passed into the dirty hall where still two bicycles stood.

  4. In the back yard the bicycles were out, glittering and muddy according to their owners.

  5. When breakfast was over, and Alvina had gone to her room, Geoffrey went out into the back yard, where the bicycles stood.

  6. Automobiles, motor trucks, motorcycles and bicycles may be seen spinning along good roads.

  7. Unlike Beira, motor cars and bicycles were in evidence in Dar-es-Salaam, but no horses were to be seen, as in Beira.

  8. The bicycles are also kept in the garage, I take it?

  9. From the bicycles the pedals had been taken away, with the exception of those belonging to Miss Blair and one of the housemaids, the only two ladies' machines in the place.

  10. There were quite a number of casualties to cars and bicycles in the neighbourhood," he added dryly.

  11. In the brewery yard were nearly two hundred motor-cars and lorries arranged in various grades of efficiency; while in the cellars were rows and rows of motor-cycles and ordinary bicycles in all sorts of conditions.

  12. It was exhausting work pushing the two motor-bicycles along the undulating, rough cobbled road in the fierce glare of the August sun.

  13. This consisted of bicycles and bicycle parts.

  14. These, it seemed, were the consignees of those bicycles and accessories.

  15. The bicycles for the people of Uruguay, all bitten with the fashionable craze--the bicycles, of which the mere notion had caused Mr. Cairns to laugh so uproariously.

  16. Those Italians and their perhaps slightly compromising bicycles had gone for ever.

  17. First, as usual, came scouts on bicycles and motorcycles.

  18. The two who rode on bicycles pedaled ahead as outriders, and the remaining three followed on behind with the horse and the dogcart.

  19. They will shoot at you and trust to their bicycles to get away.

  20. Strung out, with the bicycles in front, we went down the straight white road that ran toward the frontier.

  21. With a queer little choke in my throat, I stood on the hotel door-step, watching those two Englishmen on their bicycles whirling away down the Avenue de Commerce.

  22. Jones returned on their bicycles to look for you.

  23. When they reached Putnam Hall they placed the bicycles in care of Peleg Snuggers.

  24. As soon as they were sure the Pornell students had given up the pursuit, those in the buggy slackened their pace, and re-arranged the bicycles they were carrying.

  25. This was agreed to, and in a trice they had hoisted two of the bicycles into the buggy.

  26. The note was unsigned and read as follows: "Please return the two bicycles per bearer, and we will call the whole thing off.

  27. The girls laughed heartily when they heard how the bicycles had been taken.

  28. How to Make a Water Bicycle [335] Water bicycles afford fine sport, and, like many another device boys make, can be made of material often cast off by their people as rubbish.

  29. Yes; I can see six bicycles coming along the road.

  30. After a time a few young men, fellows who worked at the saws in a box factory and others who ran machines in a factory where bicycles were made, volunteered to follow the lead of the men of the First Ward.

  31. Our bicycles are being bought by workingmen and it would be foolish to offend them but what I say is nevertheless true.

  32. The company had a process of manufacture peculiar to Wheelright bicycles and in the booklet this was to be much emphasised.

  33. I do not make bicycles for money but because I am a workman with pride in my work.

  34. Just at the end of the village mechanical transport ends and there is a kind of depot from which all the stuff goes up by mules or men or bicycles to the trenches.

  35. His two younger sons appeared on their bicycles returning from some early expedition.

  36. Last Sunday I could not find out the names of the two girls who came on bicycles and played so well.

  37. Mevrouw and Jan were going back by the train, but Mynheer and the children had brought their bicycles with them, and were going to cycle back a part of the way.

  38. An electric tramway, and bicycles of the most modern construction, tell their own tale of the way in which European influences are making themselves felt in this land.

  39. There are, of course, no motor cars or carriages to be had for love or money, so they invested in a couple of aged bicycles and a donkey cart.

  40. Some of them have bicycles and do the messenger work through the town.

  41. We walked our bicycles past Whinnyfold, and were grateful for the unique peculiarity of that village, an absence of dogs.

  42. My wife and I got our bicycles and rode to Whinnyfold by Newburgh and Kirkton so as to avoid observation.

  43. Both our bicycles were ready at the door, and we lost no time in getting under weigh.

  44. It may be confessed that in certain respects bicycles and tricycles answer admirably to the requirements of travellers in search of the picturesque.

  45. The bicycles were strapped on the back of the carryall and all piled into the turnout.

  46. They had just reached the spot where the bicycles had been left when they heard a blood-curdling cry.

  47. It was still light when the boys leaped on their bicycles and started along the forest road for Putnam Hall.

  48. To this question the Rovers did not reply, for the reason that they had no bicycles at Brill.

  49. They must have loaned their bicycles to others.

  50. Here were about twenty bicycles and half a dozen motor cycles, all belonging to various students.

  51. That is where they keep the bicycles and such things.

  52. Plate, linen, and boots were taken away, principally from empty houses, and a large number of bicycles were loaded on motor wagons.

  53. The circulation of bicycles is only allowed from 7 A.

  54. For the first time he thought of his fellow Desert Dervish, left with the two red-painted bicycles on Dymchurch sands.

  55. It seemed only a matter of a few minutes before Bert and Laurier and the storekeeper were examining a number of bicycles that were stowed in the hinder room of the store.

  56. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bicycles on hire.

  57. He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.

  58. But really there were no fixed prices, and insistent boys could get bicycles and the thrill of danger for an hour for so low a sum as threepence, provided they could convince Grubb that that was all they had.

  59. A young man with an inquiring mind and a considerable knowledge of motor-bicycles fixed on to Grubb and wanted to argue that the thing could not have happened.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bicycles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.