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Cobblestones in sentence

11 examples of Cobblestones in a sentence

For those of us that spend most of our lives on the ground, this may be counter-intuitive, but driving has potholes, cobblestones, pedestrians, other drivers and a rather long and detailed list of federal motor vehicle safety standards to contend with.
When they wrote the Constitution, they put dirt all over the cobblestones outside the hall so that they could concentrate.
Now, I bet you're also thinking: "We don't have kinetic cobblestones or flying wheelchairs yet, so what can we do about this problem with today's technology?"
I think it's closer to the Gothic old-dark-house tradition than the American one of wet cobblestones and urban corruption; it does, however, evince a more modern, psychoanalytic cast of mind.
At the very least, ticket buyers would have expected, based on the lavish sets and art design, all in Technicolor, a passionate story of behind-the-scenes Old Vienna, complete with everyone wearing evening dress or gilt-braid uniforms with red breeches, with gas lights and wet cobblestones, with jealous prima donnas, excerpts from operettas and dancers in pastel tutus.
Most of the ingredients are there...Victorian manners and clothing...London fog...hansom cabs on cobblestones.
Forget it: “’68” is over – buried under cobblestones, even if those cobblestones made history and triggered radical change in our societies!
The nearest land was the island group of the Bahamas, scattered like a batch of cobblestones over the surface of the water.
We heard the dwindling roar of the wheels upon the cobblestones until they died away in the distance.
Young as I was, I knew that it was here, in the forest of merchant shipping, in the bales which swung up to the warehouse windows, in the loaded waggons which roared over the cobblestones, that the power of Britain lay.
A fine rain was falling, and the yellow lights from the windows glistened upon the wet cobblestones of the yard.