(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(3) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(4) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(5) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(6) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(7) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(8) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(9) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
(10) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(12) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(13) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(14) No one was seriously hurt but the road was closed north and south at 2.15am, and police have asked drivers to find alternatives.
(15) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
(16) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(17) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(18) A retrospective review of 1900 road accident victims attending the emergency departments of two Melbourne hospitals was undertaken to identify Injury Severity Score levels which could distinguish between minor, moderate, severe and critical injury.
(19) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(20) The share of expected transport infrastructure spending also moved away from cleaner public transport to roads and airports, which together rose from 8% to 36% of the total in 2015-20.
Roadside
Definition:
(n.) Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) HIV-1 infection was 1.5 times more common in women than in men; 2.5% of the adult population in rural villages, 7.3% in roadside settlements and 11.8% in town were infected.
(2) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
(3) At kilometre 254 is a giant roadside advertisement for a bank.
(4) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(5) Meanwhile, the doctor responsible for NHS England's A&E care has claimed that up to 30% of patients who arrive at an emergency department could be treated elsewhere, such as at their doctor's surgery or local pharmacy, or at the roadside by ambulance personnel, or via the 111 advice line.
(6) Such a shift in focus would have the benefit of exposing far fewer British servicemen and women to the deadly threats of Taliban snipers and roadside bombs, but would also have momentous implications for UK foreign and defence policy.
(7) Cars were abandoned on the roadside as shoppers attempted to reach the store in time to secure the best offers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hazara woman Fatima, whose husband was killed by Taliban insurgents in a roadside attack this year.
(9) The no-nonsense Dr Marietjie ("MJ") Slabbert, who also works for London's Air Ambulance and is seen at the Tottenham roadside making a decision about the positioning of her accident victim's shattered feet that will increase his later chances of walking again, shares Davies's desire to inform: "Television has a very broad audience, more so than any medical journal."
(10) AG, by email Cheap roadside recovery policies that offer the most basic assistance in the event of a breakdown are a waste of time – and this letter shows why.
(11) The victims were eventually dumped on a roadside layby on the outskirts of Delhi, and the woman died two weeks later in a Singapore hospital.
(12) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
(13) The United Nations called for the Taliban to withdraw "all orders and statements calling for the killing of civilians", stop roadside bomb and suicide attacks, and cease acts of intimidation and the use of civilians as human shields.
(14) Juan Sheet from the Plenty kitchen roll advertisements Because the damsel in distress is the consumer, we can now be rescued from absolutely anything: roadside breakdown heroes rescue women (important that it is a woman) on dimly lit backstreets, sure, but beer can also come to the rescue of thirst, washing powder to the rescue of parents, gravy granules to the rescue of Sunday lunch.
(15) He lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007.
(16) A census in 1982 (repeated in 1984) revealed that 1152 (1406) people lived in 260 (299) households of the nucleated roadside settlements of the sectors Kikwawila and Kapolo.
(17) • The Gypsy Holocaust is so often forgotten ( Editorial , 27 January) and the numbers of murdered Romany groups frequently underestimated, not least because so many were killed in small numbers at the roadside or in the woods, often providing a dress rehearsal for the murder of Jews.
(18) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(19) When I first arrived on Saturday, two men in military fatigues at the roadside, armed with Kalashnikovs, were blocking access to the crash site itself.
(20) The resuscitative facilities of the casualty department can, to a considerable extent, be made available at the roadside by doctors who carry in the boots of their cars simple, well-organized equipment.