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Example sentences for "cobblestone"

Lexicographically close words:
cobble; cobbled; cobbler; cobblers; cobbles; cobblestones; cobbling; cobby; coble; cobles
  1. Then they were in the wilds again and rattling over another cobblestone trail.

  2. She lay on a low wooden sleeping rack, and before her was the cobblestone fire pit, the yellow flames of which warmed and illuminated the slave quarters, a long low bungalow of rough-hewn cypress beams.

  3. Slowly, as Si'Wren endured the passing of the hours thus, evening fell and twilight was transformed into the blackness of night and the flicker of the cooking fire in it's cobblestone pit in the cypress bungalow of the field slaves.

  4. Looking down as they circled the narrow tongue of land on which the city proper nestled, our friends soon made out the big Government landing-field and airdrome, distinguished by its whitewashed cobblestone markers at either end.

  5. Through this Tom made his way to the cobblestone street and down to the piers.

  6. In their own modest lodgings, Rolfe could scarcely keep off curiosity seekers, especially fine lords in elaborate dress who cantered into the cobblestone court and called for Madame Rolfe.

  7. She had not minded the late hours, the murky London atmosphere, worsening her cough; nor the noise of the cobblestone streets, nor the roisterers beneath their lodgings before, but now she was as weary of London as he was.

  8. Neither rolling wagons and carriages on the cobblestone street, nor roistering revellers downstairs beneath their lodgings disturbed her, she said.

  9. Joe Kramer arriving in Paris at midnight on a punctured tire, and cursing the cobblestone pavements over which he had hunted us out.

  10. The street in front of our house sloped abruptly down at the next corner two blocks through poorer and smaller houses to a cobblestone space below, over which trucks clattered, plainly on their way to the docks.

  11. At first I stayed but a little while and never left the cobblestone space, only peering up into the steep little streets that led to the fearsome homes of the "Micks.

  12. I'm playing a game," I almost shouted, and ran without touching another post two blocks to the cobblestone space below.

  13. They were walking through the city, not on a curbed sidewalk, for such a thing is rarely to be found in Holland, but on the brick pavement that lay on the borders of the cobblestone carriage-way without breaking its level expanse.

  14. As he spoke, he began to shrink and stiffen in the same remarkable way as the Fozzy-gog, and a moment after he was standing in his ordinary shape in the centre of the cobblestone pathway.

  15. Shall I paint to you the queer, crooked streets with their cobblestone pavements and tile-roofed houses where the swallow builds in the hall and the stork on the ridge-pole, witness both that peace dwells within?

  16. Illustration: A Cobblestone paved Alley] Narrow streams are apt to run deep.

  17. On the cobblestone streets of Billingsgate, City of London.

  18. Would that the squalls could wash all of it clean, the way a downpour purged the foul straw and offal from a cobblestone London street.

  19. She always said she would not marry a farmer and would not live in a cobblestone house and now she is going to do both, for Mr. Benedict has bought the farm near theirs and it has a cobblestone house.

  20. Traders, usually women, sit in long rows on blankets laid on the cobblestone pavement.

  21. When we came to the end, there was a cobblestone path leading west.

  22. I took a deep breath of the misty air and forced myself to start helping Sarah up the cobblestone path.

  23. I turned and headed as fast as I could down the cobblestone central path, till I saw a cluster of females on a whitewashed stone porch, long hair falling over their shoulders as they bent to their tasks beneath the thatch overhangs.

  24. I needed to find some way to get around it and onto the cobblestone pathway at the far side, which led into the village.

  25. As we were motoring to the end of the long cobblestone drive, I felt as if I was approaching some Gothic movie set.

  26. As I watched the two privates carry her away, down the cobblestone pathway, AK-47's swung over their shoulders, I felt my helplessness become complete.

  27. Many have ancient cobblestone pavements full of chuck-holes; in others the streets are muddy and filthy beyond description.

  28. Abbeville affords an example of the terrible cobblestone pavement that we found in nearly all French cities of the second class.

  29. We strike a stretch of the cobblestone "pave" which is still encountered in France and ten miles per hour is about the limit.

  30. I fell with my right wrist across a rock, and caught up a cobblestone with my left hand.

  31. Ching Lung found it lying on the door-step, with a cobblestone holding it down.

  32. Some of the walls in these rooms were of cobblestone and adobe; others were of stone with natural faces and cobblestone intermixed.

  33. Both are built of sandstone and cobblestone and adobe mortar.

  34. It was built of cobblestone and adobe mortar.

  35. A few hundred feet north are the ruins of four other structures of cobblestone and adobe quite near each other.

  36. Although the structure is chiefly of stone like the last, some of the walls are of cobblestone and adobe mortar.

  37. They are built of sandstone intermixed with cobblestone and adobe mortar.

  38. At some later date, the Mesa Verde-like people had built cobblestone houses, pit rooms, and small kivas on top of this earlier debris.

  39. In addition he also excavated 29 rooms in the west wing and about two-thirds of the small cobblestone 1-story rooms which close off the southern third of the plaza area.

  40. Sometimes cobblestone walls are overlaid or underlaid by, or even intermingled with, sandstone walls.

  41. Two heavy radial cobblestone walls now extend to the south of the main structure, and excavations revealed remnants of other heavy walls disappearing under the road to the west.

  42. Today the outline of some of these cobblestone walls can be seen on the ground just to the left of the visitor trail as it proceeds northward to enter the main part of the West Ruin.

  43. I passed under shadowy arches and through cobblestone courts, surrounded by aged windows, till I came to where the Schloss Kellermann lived.

  44. The grumpy old women would sit in the middle of their piles of fruit and vegetables, while you threaded your way along the uneven cobblestone lanes they had left in between their stalls.

  45. They descended the cobblestone street from the high part of Capernaum where Symeon lived and went toward the lake below.

  46. It seemed to the amazed disciples that a thousand people filled the cobblestone street.

  47. It is a mean-looking town with cobblestone pavement so rough that it tried every rivet in our car, and nothing could be drearier than the rows of gray slate-roofed houses standing dejectedly in the rain.

  48. It was quiet up and down the winding cobblestone street; no two-wheeled carts jaunted by; there was no clatter of wooden clogs, no merriment of children playing, no noise of dogs barking.

  49. The east wing (present living room, former kitchen) rests on brick foundations, with the present wooden flooring laid over the original cobblestone floor of the old kitchen.

  50. When the house was renovated in 1942, the cobblestone floor of the room was overlaid with wooden flooring and pine wainscotting was added to the walls.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobblestone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asphalt; brick; carpet; cement; clapboard; cobblestone; concrete; curb; curbstone; flag; flagstone; floor; gravel; macadam; material; metal; pave; pavement; pebble; stone; tar; tile; washboard