LANE in a Sentence

Learn LANE 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.

150 example sentences for LANE, such as:

1. They rode along narrow country lanes.
2. It is a long lane that has no turning.
3. The side gate opens onto a small lane.
4. Then she looked backwards down the lane.
5. The pilgrims had bruised a lane on the grass.

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 Meanings and Examples of LANE
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lane
 n.  passageway between fences which is not traveled as a highroad; narrow country road
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side-door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  I might take him right out into the country, and there in some deserted lane have my last interview with him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  The pilgrims had bruised a lane on the grass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
6  The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
7  She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
8  Gurth accordingly hastened his pace, in order to gain the open common to which the lane led, but was not so fortunate as to accomplish his object.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Hilda had calculated the turn into the lane at the bridge-end.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  She slowed up rather suddenly and swerved off the road, the lights glaring white into the grassy, overgrown lane.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  She backed on to the bridge, reversed, let the car run forwards a few yards along the road, then backed into the lane, under a wych-elm tree, crushing the grass and bracken.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  Then she looked backwards down the lane.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  The hedges rose high and wild, by the unused lane, and very dark seeming.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  They tramped in ridiculous file down the lane again, in silence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  Connie timidly took his arm, and they went down the lane.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Sometimes they just drive slowly down the lane enjoying the scenery.
2  When he eventually overtook the last truck he pulled over to the inside lane.
3  Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane.
4  Always indicate before moving into another lane.
5  It is a long lane that has no turning.
6  The lane is roughly parallel to the main road.
7  He climbed onto his horse and set off at a relaxed trot down the lane.
8  The side gate opens onto a small lane.
9  Germany was not trying to push Britain into the slow lane.
10  We drove along a muddy lane to reach the farmhouse.
11  In this instance, I think a bike lane is better than a cycle track.
12  The bus rapid transit system carries a half million passengers daily in dedicated bus lanes.
13  A giant redwood had fallen across the highway, blocking all four lanes: the road was impassable.
14  The streets are scarcely wide enough for a carriage to pass, and the lanes are but a flea's leap across— a measurement that naturally occurs here.
15  They rode along narrow country lanes.