How To Use Roadside In A Sentence
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The roadsides sparkled with coreopsis, crimson clover, vetch, spring beauties, and other gem-like blooms.
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Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
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Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week.
Religion News Roundup — Islam: Music, Chess, and Sin
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But when a rival dad challenges his title, it leads to a roadside competition of epic proportions.
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This is helped by the orderly arrangement of The Square and the very good developments of roadside verges on the approach roads.
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The driver ran a stop light and broadsided the truck.
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Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
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Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam.
COMPULSION
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One of these went past me as I stood by the roadside, rising very gradually into the air and repeating all the way, _Chip, chip, chip, chip_, till at last he broke into the warble, which was a full half longer than usual.
Birds in the Bush
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the ship was broadside to the dock
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This includes 24-hour roadside assistance, with no call-out charge and up to an hour's free roadside labour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their roads were highways, raised up on a cambered bank of material dug from roadside ditches.
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The traffic had started to move more freely now and he walked to the bus shelter at the roadside, and waited.
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Randall's first publications in 1965 were literally broadsides - single poems printed on large sheets of paper that sold for fifty cents.
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The snow along the roadside was six feet deep in places.
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An American soldier was killed when he tried to disarm a roadside bomb that had been attached to a telephone pole.
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Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
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White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
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They line the grass verge along the roadside, proudly displaying flags and banners.
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And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them.
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I lowered the rifle and saw that he had stopped and was standing broadside looking at us.
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On Thursday, salvors started moving the marine gas oil into containers on the ship, then airlifting these by helicopter to shore, where it is decanted into a big roadside tanker.
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The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia's broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public.
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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Late September is one of the best times for roadside botanizing in the Pine Barrens.
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After fifteen minutes the rudder was broken off and she was broadside to the weather.
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Instead, they are sentenced to a life of subordination: tilling fields, building homes, preparing food, collecting firewood, bearing children, and preparing any item -- from charcoal to litchi fruits for their unfaithful husbands to sell on roadsides -- money that will ultimately end up in the men's empty stomachs in the form of bootleg banana booze.
Summer Rayne Oakes: Where the fire burns: Accounts from Mozambique
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The tour will include their greenhouse, fields, washing facility, and roadside market.
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The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Even if they travel by road in raths or other vehicles, their roadside stops consist mostly of speeches.
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Powell noted the clock on a roadside billboard: 5: 20 p.m.
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Bob was forced to leave the car at the roadside and run for help.
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A few days later his badly beaten body was discovered on a roadside outside the city.
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They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside.
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In three cases, words were added from broadsides or other printed sources.
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They have always acknowledged that when that occurs and kahawai are caught as a by-catch, it is entirely appropriate that fishers can take them home, smoke them, and provide them on the roadside for New Zealanders to enjoy.
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Most properties are eligible, including Aboriginal town camps, schools, local parks, roadsides, cemeteries, defence properties and golf links.
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Roadside entertainment involved a man in a comic mask, walking around and fooling bystanders.
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There were numerous illustrated broadsides and woodcuts which carried their message in visual form.
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Autumn has a light touch here: a burgundy fringe on the roadside, gold and blush in haptic patches on the tree crowns, like the burnish on a pear.
Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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They printed their broadsides in a sufficient edition so that all participants in the program could have one.
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He and a female pedestrian comforted the girl at the roadside, and contacted the police.
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Police were bemused when they found the bunny, which they dubbed Hoppy, on a roadside verge in Manchester and decided to take him into custody.
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The site will be officially opened to the public in spring, when a kissing gate is installed at the roadside.
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Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’.
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To do this they would have to come up alongside our ships leaving them exposed to a broadside from English cannons on our ships.
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They lurk in the woods, they watch through the darkness from roadside verges and creep up on unsuspecting victims.
Times, Sunday Times
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On their way to a party they spotted a basket of sweet muscadine grapes at a roadside stall.
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Professionals gather at a roadside kitchen for noodles, congee and shrimp.
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He told ludicrous stories about seeing empty bottles and litter piled ‘one meter deep’ along roadsides in America, illustrating our environmental slovenliness.
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Oz disarmed 64 roadside devices in five months before he was killed by an IED.
The Sun
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Gates in a roadside fence enable residents to cross to Dibden Inclosure, which is popular with joggers, ramblers and dog walkers.
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Training horses to accept traffic, road works and roadside obstacles is more important than ever in these days of litigation and the increasing number of vehicles on the roads.
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A Thai coastal patrol boat caught broadside on by the waves had been tumbled over and over and finished hundreds of yards inshore.
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On the road we had huge meals at roadside tin shacks run by plump maidens.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Windscreen washers and roadside advertising hoardings mounted on trailers are to be outlawed from Tauranga's streets.
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Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the city centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police had to direct traffic away from Rastrick Common yesterday after demonstrators parked cars along the roadside to highlight potential traffic difficulties at the psychiatric unit.
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To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around.
Taquisara
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A mere five gun ports open across their broadside.
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When he came (as he would have said) "ebbn fornenst" Robbie lying at the roadside, he jumped down from his seat.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
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Back home during our childhood, I and my sister frequently used to visit a roadside stall, which still sells the same bhelpuri to this day!
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The turret is not a movable one, but the guns can be trained to bear either fore or aft, or as broadside guns likewise.
The Confederate Steam-Ram Stonewall in the Lisbon Harbour
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The people who are dumping waste on the roadsides are blighting the countryside and destroying the good image that the vast majority of people try to promote.
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I did this but phoned my roadside assistance who towed me to a garage.
The Sun
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To my knowledge, there was no such broadside written for Captain Gordon, so I took it upon myself to create one—a “come-all-ye”—in the traditional mode.
Hanging Captain Gordon
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They typically nest on the ground among the dense cover of a hedgerow, shelterbelt, or brushy roadside, although they have been known to nest in the open.
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On the roadside, groups of men pry the bean from the pulpy fruit, tossing the shells aside.
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The mouth-watering rotis offered by a roadside dhaba are the most delicious ones I have ever had in South India.
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They're safely back in the bunker ordering the privates, corporals and sergeants to climb aboard our motorized tin cans, known as armoured vehicles, and patrol that God-forsaken desert -- knowing full well roadside bombs could blow them to bits.
Toronto Sun
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At 1.35 pm, Nelson, pacing his quarterdeck amidst the crash of the broadsides, calm amidst the smoke that wreathed Victory, was giving his orders quietly and firmly, as always.
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She stopped in the road, excavated her wallet from her underclothing, removed the wadded bill of sale, and tore the parchment into small bits, scattering them over the roadside grass.
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A police spokesman said the Clio is believed to have careered out of control and mounted the roadside kerb before catapulting across the road towards oncoming traffic and ploughing into the van.
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On a walk, at the theatre, in a bus, at a restaurant or a roadside joint, or even when a stranger, who is given a lift by you, rides on the pillion, people are strangely silent.
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The tracings turned up in a broadside published by John Taylor through the Nauvoo Neighbor on 24 June.
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Sloughs jigsawed the landscape, water oozed and streamed from roadside rocks.
Raymond Carver
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That junk astern of us has just treated us to a broadside of langrage, and Chips's opinion of the pair of them is that they are a couple of piratical craft.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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Roadsides are full of market stalls with fruit, vegetables, meat and other items.
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I brought the boat in broadside to the beach.
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This means that Britain's two largest roadside recovery services groups could soon become publicly quoted companies.
Times, Sunday Times
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This designation also followed the state of Florida's highway beautification program, when the coreopsis was widely used for roadside plantings.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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Rhode's craft was suddenly broadsided by a direct hit as it took a defensive position in front of Porter's smoking craft.
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Plumes of white smoke and sparks rose into the evening sky as each man o’ war loosed off a deafening broadside.
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The coach crashed through a roadside wall on a sharp bend at the bottom of a steep descent near Grenoble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Non payment costs the taxpayer millions of pounds a year, so today roadside checkpoints were set up to stop drivers at random.
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I parked my car on the asphalted roadside preferring to walk the final two miles to the abandoned homestead.
Ambrosia
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Pale swallow-worts invade a wide variety of habitats including old fields, open woodlands, pastures, roadsides, and floodplains.
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Skip dessert and stroll along to the nearby roadside stalls on Sims Avenue selling a wide array of tropical fruits — dragonfruit, mangosteen, starfruit and the king of fruits, durian
After Hours: Singapore
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Shortly before the incident, his convoy had lost vehicle- to- vehicle contact, while electronic countermeasures were being deployed against the threat of roadside blasts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just before the junction is an excellent roadside family-run restaurant, El Carrizal, where everything is cooked to order, well presented and the service is quick and friendly.
Loreto and San Javier: From Sun, Sand and Snorkeling to Museums, Missions and Mountains.
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He told police he had sipped two beers but was arrested for refusing a roadside test.
The Sun
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However, a “roadside bomb and two suicide bombers targeting polling stations in Baghdad killed at least 12 people marring the first day of voting to elect the government that will rule as U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq.”
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 5, 2010
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Nine coaches and minibuses have been taken off the road after roadside checks uncovered a worrying catalogue of defects, including faulty brakes.
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There is no doubt that Mr. Bojowald will leave many casualties by the roadside — but those who persevere will find undoubted insights into one possible explanation of the universe at its most fundamental and will experience the work of top-level science as close to first-hand as is humanly possible for a nonscientist.
How It
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I wandered over into the bushes to have a pee while Greg and Bianca waited at the roadside to flag down a taxi.
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These non-native species were once planted along roadsides and ditches and introduced into pastures and hayfields.
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It was something that would not have been attempted prior to the drainage project when the waters of the lake lapped the roadside at Pontoon.
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The police officers required the respondent to provide a specimen of breath for a roadside breath test.
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He furiously pointed at Powell and launched a broadside of obscenities at the Secretary.
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A schoolhouse on the same compound had a chalkboard with instructions on how to make roadside bombs, he said.
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I can shower, grab the bins from the roadside, shovel the driveway (checking in for screaming) and be okay.
Home Alone | Her Bad Mother
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Is located in the Grand Duchy of HA traffic roadside convenience.
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They printed a broadside in two colors on an early nineteenth-century Columbian handpress in an edition sufficient for all participants in the workshops to have one.
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Found it by the roadside with the keys in the ignition?
Times, Sunday Times
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Termite mounds dot the roadside, rising in vertical shafts to tapering points, each one a tiny architectural marvel, a many-towered Camelot.
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We bought 3 lbs of fresh cherries from a roadside vendor - their smooth, red skin a beautiful contrast to her sage colored eyes.
On Top of the World
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Shown above is the roadside daylily, hemerocallis fulva, in the midst of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerester’.
June 2008 Bloom Day « Fairegarden
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At one point there were more people clustered high on the roadside than were actually inside the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final highlight from my point of view was finding the delightful moschatel (Adoxa moschatellina, right) growing right by the roadside where we had parked the cars.
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They are also very noticeable when they fly up from a roadside verge.
Times, Sunday Times
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His van was hit broadside by a speeding car.
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The book is a melange of logical exposition, poetic irruptions, and travel on a road with many detours and roadside attractions.
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Based in Leeds, one system uses an in-car device linked to roadside transmitters which physically prevents the vehicle exceeding a pre-set limit.
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
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But the Labour leader delivered a bitter broadside.
The Sun
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Police forces internationally that use roadside test devices do so to establish the presence of illegal drugs such as amphetamines and cannabis in drivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bangalore: Members of low-income group (LIG) such as autorickshaw drivers, beedi and garment workers, maid servants and roadside vendors can now dream of a roof over their heads.
The Hindu - Front Page
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To drain the water out, the residents employed cleaners on Sunday to remove garbage and wild growth from the canal, which have been deposited on the roadside.
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The surprising warmth with which we were welcomed there, all those people offering food and drink at the roadside, still fills me with emotion.
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I had a flat tire this morning, and I called my roadside service people who sent a guy out to change the tire, but it turned out he could just pump it up.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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The bomb disposal expert was killed as he tried to defuse a roadside device in Helmand.
The Sun
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Xu was so appalled at the news that she decided to quit her habit of eating at roadside food stands.
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This one I missed seeing until it was nearly too late, and as I took evasive action I nearly broadsided another car that I was not even aware was there!
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It appeared that the vehicle had overturned and rolled a number of times before coming to rest on the roadside facing the opposite direction to which it was travelling.
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Marking a break from tradition, they were not policy documents, but broadsides against individuals.
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The trim roadside lawns with shrubberies and annuals both here and on the approach to Cork give a most optimistic expectation of what the town has to offer.
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The villagers have come from their gardens and planted the roadsides with daffodils.
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The broadside on the food industry was taken seriously by the F.D.A. and touched off a scramble by producers to head off regulation, confidential company records and interviews show.
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At least 10 people were reported killed, including five U.S. soldiers who died in roadside bombings in Baghdad Saturday.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » July
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That same night, bloodstains, shirt buttons and cartridge cases were found on the roadside a mile from the town, where it is believed he met his killers.
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The three-year RAC membership includes roadside assistance, servicing and repair.
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This includes 24-hour roadside assistance, with no call-out charge and up to an hour's free roadside labour.
Times, Sunday Times
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As part of their August crackdown on drugs, police set up a roadside checkpoint under the overpass on Pratamnak Road on August 12.
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A dry stone conduit underlies the road here; a roadside marker is a metal keystone rusted blank.
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Marta's mother became the breadwinner then, tugging the ten-year-old to the roadside.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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Arizona's roadside shrines are considered religious sites, not tourist attractions; visit with respect.
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He made contact with an elderly female who was walking along the roadside, visibly upset and panicking at what she described as losing her money while on the way to the bank for deposit.
News for NBC4i.com
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It was the local clochard who had leapt into action from his roadside bench.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the roadside vantage points we had stunning views of McKinley's commanding summit bathed in alpenglow and reflected in Wonder Lake.
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The roadside assistance company's flotation remains the biggest in terms of money raised by a British business this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along the roadside were trees flowering gloriously, chiefly the magnificent African Tulip, with its spectacular orangey-red flowers.
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But because most don't have money - what little they had before the flood is now gone - they can't buy anything even if they chance upon a roadside vendor.
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In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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Just days earlier he was peppered with shrapnel when a roadside bomb exploded.
The Sun
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As far as a modern USS Constitution (old 'ironsides') to blast a broadside and solve the problem of these pirates, please reread my March 25, 2007 OEN article, "With their own Rope" by
How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian)
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Now that's done, I have to go toddle down to various roadside ticketing agents and see what I can scrounge up for Yo La Tengo.
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These tests nearly mirror those given by highway patrolmen to suspected drunk drivers during roadside stops.
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Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the city centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Attacks involving roadside I.E.D.s (improvised explosive) or suicide bombings are the norm as opposed to armies that once clashed directly—and not infrequently decisively—with each other.
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And the evidence abounds: thick truncated trunks still pushing out new sprigs, charred stumps, and entire trees withering on the roadside.
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Ilexes and oleanders line the roadside; tall yellow mulleins and apricot hollyhocks spring up in the screes above.
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Mr. Berlusconi was broadsided by a wave of criticism on Friday when the weekly magazine L'Espresso reported that Mr. Lavitola called Mr. Berlusconi from Bulgaria on Aug. 24, seeking advice on how to respond to the investigation.
Berlusconi Faces New Storm
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And he's delivered a stinging broadside to his fellow MPs.
The Sun
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Flores, 20, of Lawton, Okla., was killed March 31 in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.
Iraq glimpses for April 2007
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Wild phlox, long escaped from neat gardens, perfumed every roadside.
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The family had little money and he took odd jobs serving in a tea shop and washing cooking utensils for a roadside food stall.
Times, Sunday Times
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They made a quick stop at a small roadside diner for supper.
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Rubbish is something we tut-tut at when we come across sweet wrappers, fertiliser bags or even a discarded fridge stuck in a roadside ditch.
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A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside.
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Englishmen the devastating effect which that single broadside of langrage had wrought upon the unfortunate craft's crew.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
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You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles.
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But this ad hoc roadside culture would not do for the motorways.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus the broadside - generally a single sheet printed on one side - gained popularity and usefulness.
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At one roadside stall, children filled polythene bags with just enough kerosene to keep the family stove burning for one more evening.
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Can the government survive this latest broadside from its own supporters?
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Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside.
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For those who had seen only bamboo furniture on the roadsides, it was different.
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Further tests may reveal whether planting Neotyphodium-infected robust needlegrass along roadsides could discourage animals from grazing too close to roadways.
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Ever since I was broadsided in a hit and run incident, my door and lock just don't function as they should all the time.
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Why did Isabel Gonzalez carry flowers to a roadside ditch for more than 50 years?
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Another common grass, both in fields and on roadside verges, is cocksfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the Roma may be quick, she only has two Class-Two forward mounts and two on each broadside.
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Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on.
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Though it may only look like a roadside attraction, the giant beagle creation off Highway 95 in Cottonwood, Idaho is actually a working bed and breakfast.
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But Marry Houston's truck hit the outside wall and caromed into Gaughan, who was broadsided by Bryan Refiner after spinning toward the infield.
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Fortunately, in those days, roadside verges were clear of overhanging tree branches.
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We set up roadside crosses and flowers at the scene of fatal traffic accidents.
Christianity Today
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As she tells it, three young women were sitting in the cab of a pickup truck parked at the roadside in some nameless coastal town.
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The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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Macdonough then used his preset kedge anchors to spin his ship around in place and bring his other broadside to bear.
Between War and Peace
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Not so very far from here the smaller, traditional, wild daffodils, the kind that inspired Wordsworth and Housman, grow in profusion in woods and by roadsides.
On the Verge
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The Bachelor's Button is an old-fashioned flower, a roadside attraction with familiar blue blossoms, also known as the cornflower.
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He explained that police would flag down oncoming cars for a roadside check.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beautiful works of art on roadside display, created out of stone, wood and metal some standing up to two meters high, were smashed.
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But this was fuchsia, big as you please, escaped from Irish gardens to the roadsides to intertwine with native brambles in tangled hedgerows.
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What it wer he could not think; but he never consayted there was a freet or a bo thereaway; so he kep near it, watching every spang and turn it took, till it ran into the gripe by the roadside.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3
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The species is native to South Africa, but is now widespread in south-western Australia, being especially abundant on roadsides and wasteland.
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The dahabiyeh -- her very name, the _Loulia_, has a gentle, seductive, cooing sound -- drifts broadside to the current with furled sails, or glides smoothly on before an amiable north wind with sails unfurled.
The Spell of Egypt
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The stones have had to survive vehicles mounting the verges and the modern peril of the flail cutters used to mow the grass roadsides.
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Vincent spends his days driving aimlessly about the French interior, stopping on occasion to read his newspaper in a park or to drink coffee in a roadside cafe.
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Critics have raised concerns over the rigour of roadside tests, with fears that they could be influenced by the weather or light conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point there were more people clustered high on the roadside than were actually inside the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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At one point there were more people clustered high on the roadside than were actually inside the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as the gunboat nearest the polacre -- finding the hail, for her to bring to, unheeded -- fired a shot into her, the brig's head paid off, and she poured a broadside into the two gunboats.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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Funny thing is the Amonium Nitrate that is being used in roadside bombs comes from aid agencies.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!
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He was often on the roadside fixing his car.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drivers who take common over-the-counter or prescription medicines are being warned that they could fail the proposed roadside drug tests.
Times, Sunday Times
