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Example sentences for "omnibuses"

Lexicographically close words:
omnem; omnes; omni; omnia; omnibus; omnific; omniform; omnino; omnipotence; omnipotency
  1. For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries.

  2. The only way to get there was to walk--omnibuses there were none, and a cab was out of the question on the score of expense.

  3. But I ask you, how was a sane person, in other words, an Irish person, to guess that omnibuses would refuse to allow dogs in them?

  4. There are always omnibuses in London to take one everywhere.

  5. She walked up the Hampstead Road, and came out upon Euston Road, where numberless omnibuses were drawn up.

  6. To omnibuses she made much the same objection.

  7. She stood on the curb, looking at the other omnibuses with a weary disinclination to ask again.

  8. In front of the hotel two omnibuses were discharging their human freight, and in the confusion, Beryl and her escort passed unobserved into the building.

  9. Among the famous houses with this sign, the well-known starting-place of the Islington omnibuses stands foremost.

  10. Strand," says he, stopping five omnibuses to give me this information.

  11. The motor omnibuses from Farnham have not yet frightened them all away.

  12. As the procession of omnibuses and fiacres moved down to the lower town, they were thrown into great excitement by seeing many of the streets and houses dressed with flags and other devices.

  13. At Maiden lane on the right, and Courtlandt street on the left, more omnibuses come up, crowding their way into an already overfull "Broadway.

  14. The omnibuses turned aside, the passengers shuddered as the poor wretch was lifted up, covered with blood and dirt, and inquired, "Is he dead?

  15. Little omnibuses in white suits moved about, gathering up papers or napkins dropped by careless diners; bigger omnibuses in dinner jackets exported trays of dishes which the lordly artists of the serving force were above touching.

  16. When the motor-omnibuses are full they carry a great many people.

  17. And they do not seem to get at all confused by the many, many omnibuses passing and repassing, but follow the right one all the time.

  18. The river is covered with steamers and barges and boats, just as the streets are crowded with omnibuses and cabs and carts.

  19. If you want to see it you must not mind getting up very early, long before any cabs or omnibuses are about--in fact, it will be very difficult to get there at all unless you can bicycle or can walk a long way without being tired.

  20. There is now a regulation to make omnibuses stop only at certain fixed places which are shown by sign-boards with the numbers of the 'buses on them.

  21. Rows and rows of great omnibuses crowded with people, both outside on the roof and inside, all waiting just because one man has held up his hand.

  22. These omnibuses are painted in very bright colours--generally red--and the newest of all are made very conveniently so that the passengers inside can mostly sit facing the way they are going, as they do outside.

  23. Some of us think that the old omnibuses and cabs were more interesting than the modern ones.

  24. And everything is very quiet, for the omnibuses and taxi-cabs have to go at a walking pace for fear they might run into something.

  25. Now, besides these underground trains, which are not seen, there are many huge motor-omnibuses to convey people about the streets above ground.

  26. So there are omnibuses and trains and cabs in numbers.

  27. Omnibuses and carts and cabs are all mixed up together in the roadway, until you would think it was impossible for them ever to be disentangled again.

  28. At this corner, where the traffic is always so congested, owing largely to the omnibuses with the three white horses abreast that cross to and from the Rue Richelieu, all the best cafes are behind us.

  29. The Rue St. Denis is one of the most entertaining of the old streets of Paris, although adulterated a little by omnibuses and a sense of commerce.

  30. At the back of the Madeleine omnibuses and trams converge as at the Elephant.

  31. Do the omnibuses run as late as that nowadays?

  32. On the day of which we write, therefore, the omnibuses were largely patronized; for everyone was in a great hurry to get to some railroad station, or to the point where they could take stages for some more or less distant destination.

  33. I have such a longing to see the sea; do the omnibuses give transfer checks for the seashore?

  34. I don't suppose people ride in omnibuses to be comfortable!

  35. But Negro enterprise has not risen to motor omnibuses in depressed Chattanooga.

  36. In some cities in the South the Negroes have all-black motor omnibuses and jitneys running.

  37. Shillibeer's huge omnibuses were succeeded by smaller vehicles of similar construction.

  38. Private omnibuses were first constructed about 1867.

  39. Omnibuses also run very frequently from the City and West End.

  40. Bushy Park is open for omnibuses and other vehicles, as well as for pedestrians.

  41. If omnibuses and cabs are more important than railways to strangers while in London, railways are obviously the most important of the three when coming to or departing from London.

  42. The place is very easily reached—by omnibuses from the city to the Middlesex end of the bridge; by steamers every half-hour during summer; and by trains from the Waterloo and the North London Stations.

  43. Most of the places within twenty miles of the metropolis, on every side, are supplied with omnibuses instead.

  44. The omnibuses had begun; women were coming from market with baskets on their arms; and she wondered if their lovers and husbands were unfaithful to them, if they would be received with blows or knocks when they returned.

  45. It took her many omnibuses to get home, and it was quite dark when she pushed the door to.

  46. He laughed aloud, but there were still omnibuses and cabs in the street; so he was not heard.

  47. And, as they surveyed the slow medley of omnibuses that moved between them and the pavement they were struck by the scene in the same impersonal way.

  48. It is a sight never to be forgotten; the passengers underneath scarcely appear a foot high, and the omnibuses so diminished, that you fancy you could take one under your arm and walk off with it easily.

  49. Open cheap cemeteries, and conveyances thither, will spring up rapidly enough; funeral omnibuses will be started at little more than the present fares.

  50. My sojourn in New York could not have been very long, and the rest of it was mainly given to viewing the monuments of the city from the windows of omnibuses and the platforms of horse-cars.

  51. What I remember is being high up in a hotel long since laid low, listening in the summer dark, after the long day was done, to the Niagara roar of the omnibuses whose tide then swept Broadway from curb to curb, for all the miles of its length.

  52. When the omnibuses arrived, was there no burst of minstrelsy?

  53. By the time Basil and Isabel reached Broadway there were already some omnibuses beginning their long day's travel up and down the handsome, tiresome length of that avenue; but for the most part it was empty.

  54. On the vast square below Helene, in an orange-tinted haze, cabs and omnibuses crossed in all directions, amidst a crowd of pedestrians, whose swarming blackness was softened and irradiated by splashes of light.

  55. The cabs again passed by at a jolting crawl, while the omnibuses rattled along the still lonely streets with a louder noise than usual.


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