Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: roadside
IPA transcription: [ɹ'oʊds,aɪd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wayside, roadside
    Meaning: edge of a way or road or path; "flowers along the wayside"
Usage examples
  • Many a man we left to sicken and die at some farmhouse by the roadside.
  • If the horse had been on the roadside, he or his men could have protected him.
  • Toward evening they reached a crystal spring which gushed from a tall rock by the roadside and near this spring stood a deserted cabin.
  • Then he began to grow fiercer and more eccentric; he would batter the crosses by the roadside; for he lived in a Roman Catholic country.
  • Levin got off his mare, and fastening her up by the roadside went to meet Tit, who took a second scythe out of a bush and gave it to him.
  • But he felt also in need of bodily sustenance, so he purchased a bun and a bottle of lemonade at a neighbouring shop and sat by the roadside to recover.
  • One day after she had arranged the fall roses she had grown, and some roadside asters she had gathered in passing, she sat in deep thought, when a car stopped on the road.
  • There were hundreds of white daisies, golden buttercups, bluebells and daffodils growing by the roadside, and each flower-head was firmly set upon its slender but stout stem.
  • If the pessimists are right,--which may I be kept from believing,--the optimists are certainly more comfortable to live with, though it be only for ten minutes under a roadside shade-tree.
  • She said she had smoked it for twenty years, and "it always makes me giddy!" The writer, in August 1913, saw a woman seated by the roadside in County Down, Ireland, calmly smoking a large briar pipe.