Use road in a sentence
Sentences starting with road
- Road is out of repair. [9]
Sentences ending with road
- We left New York Saturday night by the Pennsylvania road. [5]
- Bob got in without a word, seized the reins, the cutter flew down Brampton Street (observed by many of the residents thereof) and turned into the Coniston road. [9]
- You need not withdraw even a loaf from any one of your proteges, but certainly may now be laid by the plans for the road. [10]
- Perhaps," she added, with a little laugh, "perhaps it is Bellefontaine Road. [9]
- The single open window resembled a cleft in the rocks, and looked out upon the road. [10]
- Davout's troops, in whose charge were the prisoners, were crossing the Crimean bridge and some were already debouching into the Kaluga road. [2]
- One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
- Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [2]
- At last she went back to the farm-house, hoping against hope that Hugh might have returned by another road. [9]
- In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
Short sentences using road
- Which road are you takin'? [12]
- Isn't the road wide enough? [2]
- We was crossing the road. [5]
- I'm a-dying; gimme the road! [5]
- It's a beautiful road, beautiful. [5]
- They knew the road perfectly. [5]
- What's the road out? [5]
- The road wound gently downward. [12]
- The road cannot be mistaken. [5]
- On the road. [5]
Sentences containing road two or more times
- Joe had forgotten to tell her that a new road had been made on the ice since she had crossed, and that the old road was dangerous. [11]
- It was difficult to say, meantime, whether the road was laid out in the river, or the river in the road. [4]
- The road ran through the forest, and Victoria reflected that the grade, on the whole, was downward to the East Tunbridge station, where the road crossed the track and took to the hills beyond. [9]
- These folks in this canton leave a road to make itself, and then fine you three francs if you 'trot' over it --as if a horse could trot over such a sarcasm of a road. [5]
- At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight--and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians. [2]
- The road for the French from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the Russians from Krems to Znaim. [2]
- There lay the smooth road below us, we upon one side of it, the banked multitude wailing its other side--a good clear road, and kept free by the police--how good it would be to see my five hundred horsemen come tearing down it! [5]
- We can then sell the rest of the stock on the prospect of the business of the road through an improved country, and also sell the lands at a big advance, on the strength of the road. [5]
- But on the road, the highroad along which the troops marched, there was no such freshness even at night or when the road passed through the forest; the dew was imperceptible on the sandy dust churned up more than six inches deep. [2]
- I saw the road curve in front of me, I put all my strength into the curb, and heeling at a fearful angle was swept into the busy Kensington Road. [9]
More example sentences with the word road in them
- He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
- The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. [4]
- Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
- The oracle guaranteed you a safe road to tread through life. [10]
- The road which wound up to the summit of the Beacon was narrow and uneven. [6]
- But the Egyptian would, no doubt, have left his spies in the street, and Diodoros went out to see if the road was clear. [10]
- Our party, who would have been much surprised if any one had called them an excursion, went away on foot down the carriage road to the Glen House. [4]
- And faithful Rustem would be always with her, and the road over the mountains was the safest in all the country, with frequent stations for the accommodation of travellers. [10]
- The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
- The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
- It was a wonderfully still, beautiful night; the moon and stars were so brilliant, that our road and the landscape were lighted up almost with the brightness of day. [10]
- We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
- I have listened with the greatest pleasure to the compliments which the chairman has paid to Mr. Rogers and that road of his to-night, and I hope some of them are deserved. [5]
- A sand-hill overgrown with tamarisk bushes rose beside the road, and thither the leader guided the party of convicts. [10]
- He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
- That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
- Many a day, winter and summer, Lem had gone that road alone, whistling, and never before heeding that silence. [9]
- Beyond, the road winds up the hill'around the end of Mr. Wiley's plantation and plunges shortly into the woods, gray and cold indeed to-day. [9]
- Swift as the wind the long-limbed bays of royal breed bore the light vehicles over the uneven sandy road and the smooth highway toward the palace. [10]
- Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
- We must be willing to do this, that we may walk securely in the only practical road to holiness. [5]
- I'll materialise him--I will, on my honor--and I'd do it were he a thousand heirs jammed into one and stretching in a solid rank from here to the stolen estates of Rossmore, and barring the road forever to the rightful earl! [5]
- Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. [6]
- A flock of wild geese flew over the road and the hills, and Pellicanus cried: "Look there! [10]
- It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
- He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
- In a little while the road carried us to open, grassy land. [5]
- The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it. [2]
- The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
- Like a doe which comes forth from a thicket and finds her young grazing in the glade, she lifted her head and looked with brightest eyes away to the high road whence the call had come. [10]
- To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
- Night fell, and when they reached the Silliston road the lights of Hampton shone below them in the darkness. [9]
- Hands clutching money, were thrust aloft out of the jam by men who hoped this eloquent appeal would cleave a road their strugglings could not open. [5]
- The two governments were the builders of the road and are the owners of it. [5]
- Then, as we were setting out for Castle Howard, came the news of your death on the road to Upper Marlboro. [9]
- At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
- The aristocratic travellers were probably cleansing themselves from the dust of the road before they entered the taproom. [10]
- But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off. [12]
- The moment we were in the road I ran; and after a moment he threw dignity aside and followed. [5]
- First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
- Yet on I went, though wondering that the path along which I groped my way led upward, until the lightning showed me that, by mistake, I had taken the road to Greifenstein. [10]
- It will be well to move a little off the road and put in the whole day drilling you, sire. [5]
- With the warm weather he was able to be about again, and occasionally to mend a harness, but Doctor Rowell shook his head when Jethro stopped his buggy in the road one day to inquire about Ephraim. [9]
- And after that we used to meet by the watering trough on the Lindon road. [9]
- An hour later we met General Harris on the road, with two or three people in his company--his staff, probably, but we could not tell; none of them was in uniform; uniforms had not come into vogue among us yet. [5]
- We sold when we heard what an interest there was in the road. [4]
- As soon as we come out of the shadow that the great walls cast on the road we shall be in broad light. [10]
- By and by we came to the Mauvais Pas, or the Villainous Road, to translate it feelingly. [5]
- Having in one way or another sucked it dry, they look round for another road. [4]
- Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still. [5]
- Unfortunately, perhaps, it was too dark before we reached Henry's to enable us to see the road in all its loops and parallels as it appears on the map, but we gained a better effect. [4]
- How delightful it was to saunter down the winding road into a region of peace and calm; to see from the safe highway the great giants in all their majesty; to come to vegetation, to the company of familiar trees, and the haunts of men! [4]
- Beyond Shamshevo, Dolokhov was to observe the road in the same way, to find out at what distance there were other French troops. [2]
- Home to them was the open road where Romanys trailed or camped the world over. [11]
- A crescent moon was struggling through floes of fleecy clouds, the stars were shining, and so the road was not entirely dark. [11]
- The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
- The Erie road was set down as the most murderous in the list. [5]
- The old man was ready, and in a few seconds they were on their road. [12]
- The military road was good, but rather steep, and there was a good deal of it. [5]
- Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves. [2]
- But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
- Only yesterday he was driving his guadriga out of the gate on the road to Marea, and now--here! [10]
- The sandy road was bordered with discouraged evergreens, through which we had glimpses of sand-drifted farms. [4]
- The concession road was blocked before day had well set in; no horse could go ten yards in it. [11]
- In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike a piece of road at its time for being shady. [5]
- Even if she walks the lonely road of life, she has this advantage, that she can whistle to keep her courage up. [4]
- The horse was walking leisurely along the road. [5]
- But a lady, walking in the road with an old gentleman, had seen and recognised him. [11]
- Me an' Venters walkin' down the road! [13]
- Four times he walked me up the road to a point whence we could see a long distance; and there he would stand, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking. [5]
- She could not walk around the "carry"; she must go by the direct road, and of course she couldn't go alone. [4]
- Said he would wait for us in a little bunch of sycamores right back of Tom's uncle Silas's tobacker field on the river road, a lonesome place. [5]
- He does not vouchsafe a glance at the jubilant crowd, but gazes down at the road, his well-shaped brow so deeply furrowed with gloom that he might be meditating some evil deed. [10]
- Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
- We followed a very good road through a broken, pleasant country, gradually growing wilder and less cultivated. [4]
- It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
- What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle? [2]
- The danger attracted us, but we promptly chose the hill road on account of the views, for we were weary of the limited valley prospects. [4]
- The rest of us took the road at dawn, next morning, July 20th. [5]
- The road wound upwards, by the valley of a brook, through the hills, now wooded, now spread with pastures that shone golden green in the evening light, the herds gathering at the gate-bars. [9]
- The road was uphill--interminable uphill--and tolerably steep. [5]
- I must go up the road and waylay him. [5]
- As I went up the new Massa road the other day, I met a ragged, stout, and rather dirty woman, with a large shallow basket on her head. [4]
- A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
- We'll go first up the high road by the Lautenhof. [10]
- It's like picking up money out'n the road. [5]
- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and-nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way. [5]
- It was not until we reached the road and had begun to climb out of the valley that the silence was broken between us. [9]
- It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud. [12]
- Thus, unwearied and unseen, he had followed them as far as the street of Hermes; there his task became more difficult, for the road was swarming with people. [10]
- As the gray uniforms file out of the gate, the crowd has become a mob, now flowing back into the fields on each side of the road, now pressing forward vindictively until stopped by the sergeants and corporals. [9]
- Let it be understood that Coniston was a village, by courtesy, and its shaded road a street. [9]
- He did not understand the motion, until he saw a cent drop in the road at his feet. [4]
- The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
- I had, however, two or three plans, and these I chewed as I went across Maitre Abraham's fields, and came to the main road from Sillery to the town. [11]
- For the next two miles the road was a mixture--sometimes the ascent was abrupt and sometimes it was not: but one characteristic it possessed all the time, without failure--without modification--it was all uncompromisingly and unspeakably infamous. [5]
- At the last two inns on the road she had got news of both Tardif and Havel. [11]
- Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
- He had buried two companions in arms whom he had loved in that way which only those know who face danger on the plain, by the river, in the mountain, or on the open road together. [11]
- Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night. [2]
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