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. Pay attention to the road signs.
2. They walked slowly along the road.
3. We are bumming along the road nicely.
4. The big Bentley purred along the road.
5. I chose a spot well away from the road.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
road
 n.  a prepared way, usually with a smooth hard surface, along which wheeled vehicles can travel
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Ethan's ears were alert for the jingle of sleigh-bells, but not a sound broke the silence of the lonely road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  At the gate, instead of making for Starkfield, he turned the sorrel to the right, up the Bettsbridge road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We are bumming along the road nicely.
17  The big Bentley purred along the road.
18  Walking along the road, I was snowballed by my son.
19  They walked slowly along the road.
20  I saw them running together along the road yesterday.
21  The truck turned off the main road along the gravelly track which led to the farm.
22  One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music.
23  The road of life is like a large river,because of the power of the currents,river courses appear unexpectedly where there is no flowing water.
24  It does appear we are on the right road to success.
25  We got stuck in a traffic jam on the approach road.
26  Pay attention to the road signs.
27  He turned his attention back to the road again.
28  It outraged the public that the local authority decided to close the road.
29  Road safety is taught to young children to avoid road accidents.
30  I chose a spot well away from the road.