ROAD in a Sentence
Learn ROAD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for ROAD, such as:
1. The road ahead is very busy.
2. There is easy access by road.
3. Activity is the only road to knowledge.
4. The dog led the blind man across the road.
5. The truck skidded sideways across the road.
2. There is easy access by road.
3. Activity is the only road to knowledge.
4. The dog led the blind man across the road.
5. The truck skidded sideways across the road.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ROAD
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road
n. a way or means to achieve something
n. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
2 She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road.
3 Ethan's ears were alert for the jingle of sleigh-bells, but not a sound broke the silence of the lonely road.
4 His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
5 She gave him a last nod of sympathy while her son chirped to the horse; and Ethan, as she drove off, stood in the middle of the road and stared after the retreating sleigh.
6 He started down the road toward their house, but at the end of a few yards he pulled up sharply, the blood in his face.
7 At the gate, instead of making for Starkfield, he turned the sorrel to the right, up the Bettsbridge road.
8 They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
9 By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road.
10 They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.
11 A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in a joyous flutter of bells, and they straightened themselves and looked ahead with rigid faces.
12 But his cheek touched hers, and it was cold and full of weeping, and he saw the road to the Flats under the night and heard the whistle of the train up the line.
13 Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
14 He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
15 Just as they started he heard the sorrel's whinny again, and the familiar wistful call, and all the confused images it brought with it, went with him down the first reach of the road.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
2 There is easy access by road.
3 The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
4 He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
5 The truck skidded sideways across the road.
6 A dog darted across the road in front of me.
7 The police put a barrier across the road to stop the traffic.
8 The dog led the blind man across the road.
9 A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
10 There are plans to construct a new road bridge across the river.
11 He ran across the road, dodging the traffic.
12 You can finish the longest road step by step.
13 Activity is the only road to knowledge.
14 He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face taut with concentration.
15 The road ahead is very busy.