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Example sentences for "roadside"

Lexicographically close words:
roadhouse; roadless; roadman; roadmaster; roads; roadsides; roadstead; roadsteads; roadster; roadsters
  1. Planted along the roadside it will be found far more satisfactory than the Lombardy Poplar which is grown so extensively, but which is never pleasing after the first few years of its life, because of its habit of dying off at the top.

  2. And it will add to the effect if you plant alongside them a few clumps of their sturdy, faithful old companion of the roadside and pasture, the Golden Rod.

  3. But there will be others always coming to take their places, especially in the country, and their kindred growing in the pastures and by the roadside will ripen seed each season to be scattered broadcast by the wind.

  4. I was driving at a moderate pace (something under thirty miles an hour) when a beautiful collie which had been standing by the roadside walked quietly out and planted himself with his back to me in front of the car.

  5. I pretended that this was a capital opportunity for tea, so opened the tea-basket, and we had quite a picnic by the roadside while Rattray fussed with the chain.

  6. He followed her in silence to the log she had indicated, a few rods back from the roadside at the edge of the clearing.

  7. They drew off into the shadows at the roadside and waited.

  8. It has fallen to Borrow to hold up the mirror to wild Nature on the roadside and the heath.

  9. Rain is not supposed to fall in the Desert, but it has been coming down in slant torrents and the sky is reflected everywhere in the roadside pools.

  10. Wherever the canyon widens to little fields, the Mexican farmer's adobe hut stands by the roadside with an intake ditch to irrigate the farm.

  11. THE low rough room of that roadside inn presented a wild and tragic appearance at that moment.

  12. On rolled the vehicle with the speed of the wind--every one knows how Florentine horses can go when they have a mind to-until at length it pulled up at a highland roadside inn of most uninviting character.

  13. Thus we explain to the reader the tableau we have presented him at the little roadside inn on the Apennines; thus it was that Petro Giampetti, in place of Carlton, was wedded to Signora Florinda.

  14. Laurent by the roadside a menhir leaning, opposite a stone cross.

  15. Remains of an allée couverte, and by the roadside from Ploudalmezeau a menhir trimmed into shape and surmounted by a cross between two others of very early character.

  16. We were not long in getting ready and leaving one man from each company to guard the rolls left by the roadside the seven companies of the Second marched to the firing line.

  17. One morning, while riding towards Ufton, he had found her at the roadside endeavouring to re-adjust her cycle, which had met with a slight accident.

  18. At Manchell Springs, the stage pole being again broken, they were only able to proceed after improvising a tongue out of a sapling, chopped from the roadside with a very dull hatchet.

  19. By the roadside may be seen the identical style of water-mill still used in Morocco, and the presence of the Spaniard seems a dream.

  20. Every roadside café, long barren of its old patronage, was an evidence of the completeness of the sacrifice.

  21. He actually believed for a second or two that it was the year 1775, and that he was sitting in one of the old roadside inns of Massachusetts.

  22. Barebone made no answer, and they walked on in meditative silence toward the roadside inn, which stood up against the southern sky a few hundred yards ahead.

  23. Then there were minute details of the pitiable condition of the German armies ever since they had invaded France: the ill-fed, poorly equipped soldiers were actually falling from inanition and dying by the roadside of horrible diseases.

  24. I left the train at the station next before West Lynne, and dropped into a roadside public house as I walked, and got a good supper.

  25. At a roadside beer-shop, about two miles from Swainson.

  26. You may often see them resting on flowers and grass-stems by the roadside in the hot sunshine.

  27. Could it be possible that when he had stopped at the roadside stand he had blundered, in some inexplicable way, into another dimension?

  28. Once again Sutter drove out across state and down the highway where he had seen the roadside stand.

  29. It was then that he sighted the roadside stand ahead.

  30. They seemed to be waiting for something; the old horse was nibbling at the fresh roadside grass.

  31. The very trees by the roadside had a curiously fateful, trying way of standing back to watch her, as she passed in the acute agony of indecision, and she was annoyed and startled by a bird that flew too near the chaise in a moment of surprise.

  32. It was a long, low one-story cottage, half-hidden by the roadside trees and shrubbery.

  33. Whenever we passed a roadside cottage we found frantic mothers garnering stray children into doorways, what time the fauna of the district hastily took refuge in ditches or behind hedges.

  34. What horrid impulse took me to that barbarous peninsula, I cannot now recall exactly; but probably my journey was connected with some roadside rumour of prosperity to be found in the West of England at the holiday season.

  35. This species when grown in the open forms a large oval head, and in moist soil would make one of the best shade and roadside trees to be had.

  36. It is found on sandy roadside cuts, base of sandy wooded slopes, etc.

  37. It can be recommended for roadside planting because it grows tall and has a deep root system.

  38. Typical prairie plants are yet found along the roadside and fences in the area.

  39. Aside from this the white ash would be an excellent tree for roadside planting, because it comes into leaf late, and never produces a dense shade.

  40. It is also one of the best species for roadside tree planting, because it is deep rooted, grows tall, and does not produce a dense shade.

  41. It should be used more for shade tree, ornamental and roadside tree planting.

  42. The tree is hardy throughout Indiana and while it is a very slow growing tree, it can nevertheless be recommended for ornamental and roadside tree planting.

  43. It can also be recommended for roadside and street planting.

  44. Threatening clouds soon gave place to a heavy rain, and the party took refuge for the night in a roadside inn, where they found a mighty fire blazing upon the hearth, and savory smells coming from iron pots.

  45. The sentry was found by the roadside leading to the village, stunned by a blow from a pistol butt.

  46. He had laughed scornfully as he rode to Vienna, thinking of the poor figure Pietro Bramante had cut on the roadside among his pots and phials, wondered how Wallenstein could ever have paid the attention to his hocus-pocus that he had.

  47. The old lady told me afterwards of her finding Ellen sitting on the roadside near her well, her mind quite gone, yet very gentle and grave even in her madness.

  48. She slept that night by the roadside with a fallen tree for a pillow, and the next morning began again her plodding journey.

  49. There came a day when we had so many bands of the Free Companions in our pay that the progress of our merchandise was like that of a great army, and from rivals we made the roadside burgs our allies, sharing modestly in our ventures.

  50. Travelling the ways of the world and plucking roadside fruits, for he is no home-bred and womanish stripling.


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