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Example sentences for "sidehill"

Lexicographically close words:
sideboard; sideboards; sided; sidedly; sidedness; sidelight; sidelights; sidelines; sideling; sidelong
  1. It might be best to construct it with a minimum of cutting by the use of a sidehill viaduct of reinforced concrete.

  2. But occasional pieces here and there may be taken for park purposes, as, for instance, a steep sidehill adjacent to the line and unavailable or difficult for building.

  3. Sidehill plow patented and manufactured by the Knapps.

  4. Somehow the joke got out, and old Pipe rent his garments and swore vengeance on the Sidehill Whirlwind.

  5. Everybody wanted to see Magdalene run, and the best that could be done was to match the Sidehill Whirlwind with one of the Mur girls, a fleety family who lived on the hills in Safed.

  6. Even around the treacherous sidehill there was no more than the usual seepage.

  7. Looked me square in the eye, and told me to be careful with sidehill ditches, and so on, just as if it didn't affect him at all.

  8. Water poured down a sidehill from a mass of shattered boards and broken, displaced timbers.

  9. You want to be careful of the sidehill ditches, though.

  10. Chicken Little had just assured us that if we would drive a little farther west, we should surely find something, when we struck the sidehill and went over as neat as you please.

  11. There was the cross-feathered snee, I remember, which was said by the bird books to be really the same as the sidehill mooney.

  12. As the sun gained power the sidehill absorbed its rays and threw off a baking heat.

  13. The hanging section of sidehill above it which Gus' shot had failed to shake, had fetched away and swept the structure out of existence.

  14. They crossed the rear fence, finding no obstruction, and followed the ditch until it struck the sidehill section.

  15. Again, to avoid expensive fluming the ditch wound sinuously around the flanks of several steep sidehills, and to disturb existing sidehill ditches is to invite slides, which necessitate flumes.

  16. The ditch, leaving the sidehill with the new flume, crossed the end of a flat and struck another sidehill.

  17. This shot was above, and when she blew she ripped the whole sidehill loose.

  18. The sidehill was steep and broken here, but he went down the slope in great strides and with every appearance of wishing to evade the two in the motor-car.

  19. A mile out of the limits of Shopton the road edged a deep valley, the sidehill sparsely wooded.

  20. The latter is by far the best practice, as it permits the immediate withdrawal of the machine in case of a threatened cave-in, sidehill slip, or other unforeseen danger.

  21. Far off on the opposite side she made out a lone horseman riding at a full run along the sidehill above the cows as he made a supreme effort to reach the head of the run.

  22. Papoose followed the paint-horse as Harris put Calico down the slippery sidehill and lifted him round the point of the herd.

  23. High on the right-hand slope of the gulch lay a notch, a little blind basin watered by the seepage from a sidehill spring, and there on the green bed of it a dozen cows with their calves grazed undisturbed.

  24. Running water had been piped down from a sidehill spring.

  25. Toward this they went, following the sidehill and gradually dipping down through heavy underbrush.

  26. They were ascending a narrow trail which ran along the sidehill through the timber.

  27. MacQueen had resaddled after their luncheon, and they were climbing a long sidehill that looked over a dry valley.

  28. Another tradition is that a house ought not to be located in a valley, but that a hilltop, or at least a sidehill elevation, is preferable, the possible dampness of the valley being alleged again as the reason.

  29. Unless, therefore, a convenient knoll or sidehill is available on which to build a concrete tank, the large pipe direct from the water-supply must be provided for fire protection.

  30. On a sidehill or in a valley artificial grading has to be resorted to, except on one side.


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