How to Use roadside in a Sentence

roadside

noun
  • There are 61 tents in all, fenced in from the riverside and from the roadside.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Many are believed to have died in their homes or on the roadside.
    Declan Walsh Andrea Bruce, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • At the first mesa location the car was parked at the roadside.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The pipeline runs to a roadside tank, and the water is trucked to a bottling plant.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The Ford rolled over onto its right side and came to a rest in the eastbound roadside.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2022
  • He was driven to a roadside cafe, where he was made to strip naked.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • She’s also been known to brake for a too-good-to-pass-by roadside find.
    Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the flow of Trump devotees lured by roadside flags has been strong.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The pipeline runs to a roadside tank, and some of the water is trucked to a bottling plant.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • This is the kind of unique roadside stop that's essential for a quirky road trip.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Pull over at the bevy of rock-and-brass roadside historic markers.
    Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Massey’s has the alarming, ramshackle charm of a roadside stand that rents Uzis.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Services were held in the roadside church where Aithel Aiken was the pastor.
    Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Vast sweeps of this flower bloom each spring on roadsides, banks, and fields.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The sink was full of dirt and plants, displayed at a roadside shack called Sunset Junque.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • Which is how Mona comes to pull up at the roadside where Julia sells her baked goods, and to buy up her whole stock.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 29 May 2023
  • Here, the snow had been cleared into pebbly heaps by the roadside and then blackened by the diesel fumes.
    ELLE, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In the video taken by the roadside, Obumseli and the bystander ask Clenney to breathe and relax.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Forgas was thrown toward the roadside in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene, state police said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Tree-of-heaven thrives in soil that has been disturbed, such as along roadsides.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 June 2023
  • Summer is high season for the hot dog, from backyard grills to ballparks to the finest roadside joints.
    J. J. Goode, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Large logs were piled along the roadside as well, awaiting export.
    Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
  • John Hallett, who died that same day in 2009 after he was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
    Danielle Jennings, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The area appears rural, with a roadside restaurant, some privates homes and a small strip of stores.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Here's a full itinerary with all the best views and strange roadside attractions to stop for.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Another victim lay face down in a small grove by the roadside.
    Grant Peck, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The girl and her mother left the vehicle and ran toward the roadside; when the pickup hit the Jeep, the girl was pinned between it and the snowbank.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • His body was found off a roadside not far from the couple’s Valley Center ranch.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • One morning in mid-August, Soto stood on a roadside scanning the gently flowing Salmon River.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In Florida, coastal communities were still trying to clear huge piles of debris stacked on roadsides and tons of sand pushed inland from massive storm surge.
    Jeff Amy, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024

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