(1) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
(2) Exhibition Road is the largest example of such a space in Britain, although it is not the purest, as there is some slight differentiation between carriageway and footway.
Sidewalk
Definition:
(n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(2) The way the city is set up with actual sidewalks (yes, there are many city streets in America that have no sidewalks!)
(3) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
(4) Most injuries occurred indoors (47.0%), on the sidewalk or street (22.5%), or in the residential yard (13.0%).
(5) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
(6) Powell is seen pacing up and down the sidewalk outside a store from which he is alleged to have stolen soft drinks and donuts.
(7) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(8) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This episode opens outside South Park’s election night viewing party, where we see residents stumbling drunkenly outside and puking on the sidewalk.
(10) Police have said that Brown assaulted Wilson after the officer stopped him and a friend and told them to walk on the sidewalk rather than in the road.
(11) Although hosepipes would not be banned outright, hosing sidewalks for cleanliness with potable water would be banned and only drip or micro-spray sprinklers allowed.
(12) In a statement circulated to member states of the UN , Russia accused the summit of leaving the views of UN member states “on the sidewalk” in “alarming circumstances”.
(13) There was a dispute with police, who said protesters were blocking the sidewalk.
(14) I was then dumped outside on to the pavement, which I resolutely refused to think of as a "sidewalk", and I walked back to my barren hotel, stared desperately into a minibar the size of a cattle ranch, and got the next flight home.
(15) But old habits die hard: you still hear the hair-raising sound of someone clearing their throat and projectile phlegm on the sidewalk.
(16) "If they did that, you could just roll up the sidewalks and shut Ilion down," said a local business owner, Jim Crossways.
(17) The author had disputed claims by police that a permit granted to the event – organised by the Huffington Post website on Tuesday night – allowed them to clear the sidewalk outside the venue in the Soho district of Manhattan.
(18) Then, the family alleges, the senior of the two officers, Detective Aldridge, “slammed her to the sidewalk and pushed her face into the pavement.
(19) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
(20) Given that several players not at the press conference were seen on nearby sidewalks at that time it is likely this might have been their only opportunity to see their children.