Word Finder - road

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A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.

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A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation.

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We travelled to the seaside by road.

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A path chosen in life or career.

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An underground tunnel in a mine.

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A railway or a single railway track.

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The act of riding on horseback.

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A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.

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(often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.

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A journey, or stage of a journey.

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A way or route.

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At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.

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(Slang) Having attributes, primarily masculine, suggesting a tendency towards minor crime. Usually used by youths endearingly; glorifying crime.

Didn't the police set up road blocks?

At the edge of the road stood an oak.

The saturated road no longer absorbed the water, which ran along the ruts in streams.

A short walk up the road uncovered another mailbox.

We breakfasted and were on the road by the agreed time.

They started down the road toward a ranch house.

I have my horizon bounded by woods all to myself; a distant view of the railroad where it touches the pond on the one hand, and of the fence which skirts the woodland road on the other.

His face was a road map of emotion, traveling from puzzled, to comprehensive and then on to frustration.

Soon they came into the main road where a number of the king's men were waiting.

The mother dragon probably knows the road to the earth's surface, and if she went the other way then we have come the wrong way, said the Wizard, thoughtfully.

Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to Znaim.

The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre.

They were several miles down the road before either of them spoke.

I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.

He had not gone farther than to the end of the innkeeper's field, when to his surprise he found that the road forked.

Often in a snow-storm, even by day, one will come out upon a well-known road and yet find it impossible to tell which way leads to the village.

There was no street sign, but according to the map, it had to be the correct road.

Maybe Sarah or Giddon would take her to the little country store where the dirt road joined the highway.

Trees arched over the road, forming a canopy of leaves.

He swung the car off on a side road and turned around, heading back toward the cabin.

Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.

I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called "a handsome property"--though I never got a fair view of it--on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life.

Maneuvering the car around skillfully, he started back up the road.

The day she met him he had been riding on the road.

Sure, unless he forces you off the road!

They wasted no time getting on the road and Brandon was driving fast.

Jane, our GPS, as Betsy named her, didn't let us down and we found our friend's cabin at the end of a dusty road, hungry for dinner after a six hour drive.

I obediently pulled to the side of the road.

At one point the road became one lane and curved around the face of a cliff.

A real estate sign advertising a house for sale peeped out from tall grass beside the road.

I'm doing some work at a broiler farm down the road a piece.

The broad Oxford road forms its picturesque main street.

Some road motor services have been instituted.

From Tibula another road ran inland to join the road from Carales to Olbia some 16 m.

Carales was also connected with Olbia by a road along the east coast.

A grassy road between banks io to 12 ft.

A Roman road may have run past the site; coins, &c., have been found, and the district at any rate was inhabited in Roman times.

He gave undue attention to the road.

Bordeaux kept his eyes on the road.

I placed flowers on her road side resting place.

It was midafternoon before we got Howie on the road, first to Boston and then a flight west.

Peeling out, she floored it and tore down the road.

She struggled for control, focusing on the road.

She must have hiked down the back way and met up with him down at the bend in the road, below where our Jeep is parked.

The road darkened as he entered the trees and he turned on his headlamps, trying to avoid the rocks and boulders that littered the roadway.

He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

He kept his eyes on the road, his expression unreadable.

He hopped into the car, directing her to the small Cafe a few miles down the road.

The road gradually narrowed and climbed through hills choked with brush and huge oak trees.

Megan watched as the car backed down the drive and then started down the road.