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Example sentences for "boardwalk"

Lexicographically close words:
boarders; boarding; boardinghouse; boardroom; boards; boare; boarhound; boars; boast; boasted
  1. At right angles to the twelve-inch rough boards others of the same size were nailed, the last projecting out on the level ground, thus forming a boardwalk around the excavation.

  2. In one corner, place a box on a post three feet high with a cleated boardwalk leading up to a platform from which they can reach the entrance, which should be a round hole.

  3. There is an excellent store on the Boardwalk and we found another in Omaha.

  4. The most interesting thing to sightseers was a stroll up the boardwalk laid along a narrow winding stream that has its origin in the snow-capped mountains.

  5. Frowning, she glanced quickly toward the boardwalk as if seeking an avenue of escape.

  6. A boardwalk led over the dunes to the water front.

  7. Nevertheless when he descended from his room at the New Salisbury that evening and prepared to take a turn on the boardwalk before dinner, his confidence evaporated at the coolness of his reception by the assembled guests of the hotel.

  8. At his suggestion they quit the wheel chair at a point well down the boardwalk to drink orangeades in a small glass-fronted café which faced the sea.

  9. They went; and he found a bench in a quiet place under the shorings of the boardwalk close up alongside one of the lesser bathing pavilions, and they sat there, and he talked and she listened.

  10. A quick step on the boardwalk behind her caught the girl's attention.

  11. They had come back to the boardwalk which marked the parting of the ways for them.

  12. The variegated appearance of a patched-up boardwalk will seriously detract from the attractiveness of any garden.

  13. A boardwalk can be changed at any time with but little trouble if you get it in the wrong place, but a cement walk, once down, is down for all time, unless you are willing to spend a good deal of hard labor in its removal.

  14. He continued, his voice precise and even: "We went directly from the end of the Boardwalk to the old shed; it was open, an unfastened door on a pair of leather hinges.

  15. I promised to be on the Boardwalk before Heinz's Pier at two o clock and he turned to shuffle away.

  16. He went directly ahead with the story and I was careful not to interrupt him: "I was sitting in a rolling chair out there on the Boardwalk before the Traymore.

  17. Not literally to the door, for the road ran between the sea and the house, and a boardwalk was between the road and the sea.

  18. So down to the Boardwalk they went, and Nurse Nannie and Rosy Posy took one chair, and the three children took another.

  19. As he pushed through the batwings, Madrid came clumping up the boardwalk and called to him.

  20. Tesno stepped off the boardwalk into the dark river of the street, angling toward a dim white globe with HOTEL lettered on it.

  21. As the girls swung along the boardwalk they had a wild desire to shout with the sheer joy of living.

  22. Mrs. Danvers had turned from the main boardwalk down another that led to a bungalow whose every window was cheerfully and invitingly lighted.

  23. You didn't say anything about a boardwalk down here, Connie," added Vi.

  24. They were walking along a rough boardwalk set quite a way back from the water's edge so that there was a white stretch of beach between it and the first thin line of lapping waves.

  25. Gwinnett standing on a boardwalk between the house and the stable-garage behind, with his hands raised.

  26. There was a fresh bullet-scar on the boardwalk at his feet.

  27. Lucy threw up her hands and laughed so loud and cheerily that an habitue taking his morning constitutional on the boardwalk below turned his head in their direction.

  28. The wreck of a "shoot the chutes," the carousel, a dancing pavilion and a short boardwalk with adjacent stands, had been abandoned by the unfortunate promoters.

  29. On their way back to the camp they tied the boat up at the foot of the wrecked pleasure park and walked up the broken boardwalk to the shoe-house.

  30. The open dazzle of placid elements, obedient only to some cosmic calculus, lay as a serene curtain against which the quaint flamboyance of the Boardwalk was all the more amusing.

  31. They bathed in the warm September surf; they strolled the Boardwalk up beyond the old Absecon light, where the green glimmer of water runs in under the promenade.

  32. The third entrance, also not far from Trapper Joe's, consisted of a narrow boardwalk path nailed to fallen trees and stumps just above the water level.

  33. Retreat to the safety of the boardwalk was completely cut off.

  34. Don't you want to learn where this boardwalk goes?

  35. Footsteps became audible on the boardwalk some distance away.

  36. If she did come, unarmed as she was, she might leave the boardwalk only to endanger herself.

  37. I come up beside her on the boardwalk and turn my back to the ocean, too.

  38. No girl would get out on a boardwalk on a day like this.

  39. Illustration: Dave and Mary in wind on boardwalk at beach.

  40. Tom is easy enough to find, pacing up and down the boardwalk like a tiger.

  41. By this time the four Rovers had left the boardwalk and were plowing along on the side of the road through mud that varied from an inch to six inches in depth.

  42. Now the boom city, if such it might be called, consisted of a long straggling main street with a much dilapidated boardwalk on one side only.

  43. The narrow street with the single boardwalk was crowded with people, some well dressed and others in the roughest of costumes.

  44. Cleo leading her friends from the boardwalk along the Avenue to her quaint summer home.

  45. A lone figure on a lone bench up near the boardwalk attracted their attention at the same moment.

  46. The boardwalk was all but deserted, not more than the heroic health seekers who walk in all kinds of weather, having courage enough to promenade.

  47. Along the boardwalk the excitement was so intense as to cause danger of children being trampled on, and in this emergency those Girl Scouts not on the pier helped the Boy Scouts in efforts to prevent disaster.

  48. She had relinquished his arm, abruptly turned to the rail of the boardwalk and gazed seaward.

  49. Black, white, red, yellow, brown and nondescript races mingle on the boardwalk in that never-ending promenade from the Inlet to Chelsea.

  50. I Alfred Stone as he stood on the boardwalk opposite the Marlborough-Blenheim asked himself why some bold thinker had not elucidated the psychology of Atlantic City.

  51. Above them the long curve of the boardwalk was empty, with, behind it, the suave ornamental roofs of the cottages.

  52. I told him," she volunteered further, "he didn't belong on the boardwalk but in the rough joints past the avenue.

  53. Well, I've got hold of a concession on the Atlantic Boardwalk and the necessary cash is in sight.

  54. The rent was paid on his Boardwalk office, he had a guaranteed salary while he was working, and a "research bonus," designed to keep him working until the Society was finished with that phase of its work.

  55. Peter Forsythe that he should leave his little place on the Boardwalk and come down to Arlington to work.

  56. To leave the Boardwalk during the summer would, as far as Forsythe was concerned, be tantamount to economic suicide.

  57. From the picture on the letter-head the waves seemed to be curling under the Boardwalk onto the lower steps of the front porch.

  58. None of the glare and glitter of the Boardwalk hotels for me; no, sir!

  59. Between them and the ocean was a broad boardwalk also filled with people.

  60. Just walk the boardwalk or sit on the sand or bathe; that's about all.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boardwalk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    berm; boardwalk; catwalk; esplanade; groove; parade; path; pathway; promenade; run; runway; rut; sidewalk; towpath; track; trail; walk; walkway