(a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
(n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
(3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
(4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
(5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
(7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
(8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
(10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
(11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
(13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
(15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
(16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
(17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
(18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
(19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
(20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.
Rambler
Definition:
(n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inner London branch of the Ramblers has also spoken out against the scheme.
(2) The cost of adding a strip of paving or grass on one side would be small but of great benefit both to residents and visiting ramblers.
(3) In 2005, it produced the Exohiker, a bionic walking aid that allows ramblers to trek with heavier loads.
(4) The so-called "naked rambler", Stephen Gough, will spend at least another three months in prison after a judge ruled that he will stand trial in January accused of walking around in public unclothed.
(5) The number of ramblers who have climbed the mountain has boomed since the apocalypse prediction, from 10,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011.
(6) Shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the bench in February 1992 as his Limerick team take on Cobh Ramblers.
(7) After far too long spent quizzing 20-something herberts, one of the most fascinating music interviews I ever did was with two elderly Louisianans, Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist 93 year-old Edwin Duhon , who formed their Cajun band The Hackberry Ramblers in 1932, and got their first and only Grammy nomination in 1997.
(8) Even in later years, the duke's disputes with ramblers, who used the paths near his home, did not bring him the sort of publicity most stately-home owners would have welcomed.
(9) Planes from America were said to have been fully booked for December with passengers who had only bought one-way tickets, hippy cults were claimed to have built bunkers beneath the village, and half-naked ramblers were said to be seen wandering up the mountain in procession, ringing bells.
(10) As a direct challenge to ownership as exclusivity, there was the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, where thousands of ramblers trespassed on private moorland in the Peak District.
(11) He must also ensure that local walkers and visitors will still have unimpeded access to the dunes under Scotland's strict right to roam legislation - rules Trump was unaware of until he was questioned by the Ramblers Association at the planning inquiry.
(12) A letter signed by the Woodland Trust, the Ramblers Association, Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, the Chilterns Conservation Board, Buckinghamshire county council and MP Cheryl Gillan will be handed to the prime minister on Thursday, asking him to directly intervene in this matter.
(13) Phil Marson, chair of Inner London Ramblers , warned that the impact of the bridge on internationally famous walking trails would be too much.
(14) The Naked Rambler has been arrested three days after he was released from prison.
(15) Most people might be layering up in order to maintain bodily warmth – but not the Naked Rambler.
(16) One Estonian rambler had taken refuge in Rennes-Le-Bain's thermal springs saying, "I went for one walk around Bugarach and was stopped by two TV crews asked if I'd prepared for the apocalypse."
(17) Hammond said ramblers in the Peak District would not be disturbed by bullet trains tearing through an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the Birmingham-to-Leeds line likely to pass between Derby and Nottingham, and to the east of one of Britain's most stunning national parks.
(18) Planned cuts to the Forestry Commission risk the credibility of the independent panel appointed to advise the government on the future of England's forests , the Ramblers charity warned today.
(19) But today Ramblers said the panel would have one hand tied behind its back if government cuts to the commission went ahead before the independent advisers had a chance to report on the organisation.
(20) A person's right to dress as they choose way can be overridden by secular law in certain circumstances – the Naked Rambler has been frequently jailed, and political uniforms were banned by the Public Order Act (1936) .