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Example sentences for "lanes"

Lexicographically close words:
landt; landward; landwards; lane; lanely; lanesome; lang; langa; langage; langar
  1. The boys early leave off scurrying in shouting bands down the lanes in the dusk.

  2. The deep primrosed lanes welcomed her back to them.

  3. No subsequent raid was to prove equally destructive of property or life, and it was disturbingly evident that, for the time being at least, the shadowy air lanes to Paris lay broadly open to the foe.

  4. After a walk through the woods and lanes of late summer and autumn, one's clothes reveal scores of tramps that have stolen a ride in the hope of being picked off and dropped amid better conditions in which to rear a family.

  5. In various parts of England there are deep lanes or cuttings, which have received curious local names.

  6. The fields, the hedgerows, and the lanes which delight us so much in the country are, most of them, some two hundred years old.

  7. So that it may be questioned if all those who ostensibly made themselves so busy in exploring woods and fields and lanes were quite so thorough when it came to the private examination of their own lofts and outhouses.

  8. The previous day or two having been wet, the inference was irresistible that the wearer had quite recently been walking some considerable distance about the lanes and fields.

  9. The church has been restored, coaches run to bring visitors, and the roads and lanes have been widened.

  10. Nevertheless there was an upper and a lower Montegnac, reached by lanes going up or going down from the main street.

  11. The tunnel had been cleared for two lanes of trucks and tractors.

  12. But another thousand were coming through the hedges from other lanes and streets.

  13. It is a wood-loving insect, but is also found on heaths, and even in lanes and the borders of fields when plenty of trees occur in such places.

  14. The moth is out in July and August, and affects lanes and hedgerows.

  15. Within these leafy lanes lurk the only spots upon the Campo, save for the rare woodland, that do not stare frankly upwards, exposing all their earthly soul to the blue sky.

  16. Just inland, where the undulations of the real country begin, the lanes are ablaze with passionflower and honeysuckle--but the steamer is whistling impatiently in the distance, and the tourists are flocking back to the tramcars.

  17. The verdure of the place, moreover, is enhanced by the numerous green lanes that intersect it.

  18. Here and there are lanes walled in by mounting hedges of honeysuckle and rose, while many of the private grounds are guarded by the impassable lines of aloe.

  19. How should I know If there were lovers in the lanes of Atlantis When the dark sea drowned her mountains Many ages ago?

  20. SONG AT SANTA CRUZ Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis: Meeting lips and twining fingers In the mild Atlantis springtime?

  21. She was going to a ball given by the Lanes in Carlton House Terrace.

  22. And the one she had a full hope of meeting again, but the other---- After the funeral the Lanes took up once more the old dual life which had been momentarily interrupted.

  23. The Lanes sat at breakfast one morning and took up their letters.

  24. Strings of camels used to penetrate the dim, winding lanes of the city, and nasty, snarling, tusky creatures they were to dodge about among.

  25. Then he turned into a by-street and vanished in a labyrinth of lanes and courts, formed by rheumatic little cottages, whose exterior did not belie the reputation enjoyed by this part of the town.

  26. It was the afternoon when we rode through the lanes of a large Indian village, and shortly after arrived at Colon, an hacienda belonging to Don Antonio Orria.

  27. They came on with music, riding up the lanes until they arrived in front of this house, which being the principal place hereabouts, they came to first, and where the Indian workmen and servants were all collected to see them.

  28. We rode through shady lanes of trees, bending under the weight of oranges, chirimoyas, granaditas, platanos, and every sort of delicious fruit.

  29. There are beautiful walks in the neighbourhood, leading to Indian villages, old churches, and farms; and all the lanes are bordered with fruit-trees.

  30. The lanes or streets of the village are cleanly swept, and shaded by the blossoming branches that overhang them; while every now and then they are crossed by little streams of the purest water.

  31. Well, the poor wretch began to pick up, as I said before, and in three days was such another woman that nobody could have told that she was the poor crazy thing that ran about the lanes and alleys of the Points.

  32. Mr. Snivel says he has none but what he gathered from the negroes and poor mechanics, who live in the by-lanes of the city.

  33. I brought her where faint breezes sweep Through lanes walled in with hedges high, And sown with luscious grass and deep At ease the fatted pastures lie.

  34. But he still heard Daddy's laughter echoing down the lanes of darkness as he chased his pattern with yearning and enthusiasm.

  35. It was a jolly night, a windy night, a night without clouds, when all the lanes of the sky were smooth and swept, and the interstellar spaces seemed close down upon the earth.

  36. It was The Tramp--Traveller of the World, the Eternal Wanderer, homeless as the wind; his vivid personality had haunted all the lanes of childhood.

  37. The lanes up from the Ouse when I landed I found to be of a slow and natural growth, with that slight bend to them that comes, I believe, from the drying of fishing-nets.

  38. I went to fetch rakes from the steading; and when I had come back the last of the grass had fallen, and all the field lay flat and smooth, with the very green short grass in lanes between the dead and yellow swathes.

  39. The outward expression is most manifest, and to pass in and out along the lanes in front of the old houses inspires in one precisely those emotions which are aroused by a human crowd.

  40. Delft is very quiet, as befits a town so many of whose streets are ordered lanes of water, yet one is inspired all the while by the voices of children, and the place is strongly alive.

  41. They were in such a maze of lanes that the old man was master, and Redworth vowed to be rid of him at the first cottage.

  42. She remembered long afterward the sweet simpleness of her feelings as she took in the scent of wild flowers along the lanes and entered the woods jaws of another monstrous and blackening experience.

  43. The sharpness of his eyes was divided between the sword-belt of the starry Hunter and the shifting lanes that zig-tagged his course below.

  44. They walked over the grounds of Copsley, and into the lanes and across the meadows of the cowslip, rattling, chatting, enlivening the frosty air, happy as children biting to the juices of ripe apples off the tree.

  45. We traversed a maze of lanes and finally reached a lonely house, shut up, and standing in something of a jungle, trees all round it.


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