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Example sentences for "gateposts"

Lexicographically close words:
gatehouses; gatekeeper; gatekeepers; gateman; gatepost; gater; gates; gateway; gateways; gatha
  1. Before going out between the old gateposts they turned for a last glimpse of the scene of their pleasant camping and working adventure.

  2. Then he passed between the old gateposts where the sentinels had once stood, and disappeared in a turn of the road.

  3. Presently the woodland hid from her sight the noble river shining far below, and Virginia pulled Vixen between the gateposts which marked the entrance to her aunt's place, Bellegarde.

  4. Hamilton, called the Hair Buyer, was upon them with no less than six hundred, and he would hang them to their own gateposts for listening to the Long Knives.

  5. When she finally reached Peerout Castle the first thing she saw was the pine branches that had been nailed to the gateposts the last time she was there.

  6. Open gateposts are much sought after; and our front gateposts have always been favorite resting-places on sunny afternoons, where these beauties seemed posing to order.

  7. So it came about that when a long, low, dust-powdered car curved in between the granite gateposts of Stockleigh Farm and came abruptly to a standstill, she remained entirely oblivious of its advent.

  8. And then the crisp sound of a horse trotting on the hard, dry road came to her ears, and almost immediately the high dog-cart swung between the granite gateposts and clattered into the yard.

  9. Once they paused by the wayside to drink from a spring that bubbled conveniently near, and toward evening they drew rein under a giant mulberry tree at the head of a lane where gateposts with acorn finials marked the entrance.

  10. The yard was enclosed with a horizontal plank fence and the gateposts had small acorns to match the larger ones on the Outer Gate.

  11. It may be that the lions on the gateposts shed tears, and it is possible there was weeping in the Seward household--but not by Seward.

  12. When the news went forth that Lincoln was nominated, Seward received the tidings in his library at Auburn; and the myth-makers have told us that he cried aloud, and that the carved lions on his gateposts shed salty tears.

  13. Before her were great maples, with mysterious darkness between--thickening into a group with dark undergrowth at the point where the two stone gateposts marked the junction of driveway and street.

  14. But the avenue ended suddenly as it had begun, and instead of a house they saw nothing but two gateposts of stone, ancient and weathered, surmounted by immense round balls.

  15. She left the desolate gateposts with a shiver.


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