(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.
Wayside
Definition:
(n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The commercial world – with the egregious exception of the "too big to fail" banks – is run on empirical principles: companies that work tend to survive and thrive, while those that don't fall by the wayside.
(2) That quickly fell by the wayside as welfare became universal and blind to individual merit or misbehaviour.
(3) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(4) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(5) As one potential drug after another has fallen by the wayside, scientists have begun to look for ways to treat people at a much earlier stage, when their brain is not so badly damaged.
(6) You’d be forgiven for thinking that when innovative new services and products reach the market and cause established household names to fall by the wayside, it’s simply a matter of consumer choice.
(7) The number of failed IVAs is also expected to fuel bankruptcy numbers in the new year, with as many as one in five debt repayment plans falling by the wayside , according to debt charities.
(8) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(9) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
(10) One secretariat staff told Irin: “Now, it’s a bunch of people in New York writing the SG report, and who literally have taken over a lot of the process.” Within this messy landscape, some proposals have begun floating to the top, and, more importantly, others have fallen by the wayside.
(11) Smart fridges may well be the appliance of the future, or could fall by the wayside as too much tech for too little gain, but the idea of connected sensors and smart devices making decisions without our input will continue.
(12) In the interest of reaching a new cohort of younger and more diverse workers, immediate ambitions to increase membership levels have fallen by the wayside.
(13) But Guttenberg is now one of a number of notable CDU figures who have fallen by the wayside as Merkel has tightened her grip on the party.
(14) Britain cannot afford to be a grinning giant left by the wayside as the EU and the world struggle on.
(15) Yet attempts to grasp at wider meanings are likely to fall by the wayside on Monday when the theatricality of "the trial of the century" takes over.
(16) If you look at it that way, fine art may go by the wayside, and fashion, which has a bit more effort put into it, will take over.
(17) When they do, girls and women’s health and rights will be first to fall by the wayside if governments fail to sustain or increase investments.
(18) The rhetoric that the Castros have used against the United States has fallen to the wayside, they have lost the argument they have used.
(19) However, this group fell by the wayside as bacteria evolved enzymes that broke the drugs apart.
(20) I think we've perfected a lot of the tragedy and we're getting there faster than a lot of other places that may be a little more reasoned, but my dangerous idea kind of involves this fellow who got left by the wayside in the 20th century and seemed to be almost the butt end of the joke of the 20th century; a fellow named Karl Marx .