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Example sentences for "lane"

Lexicographically close words:
landsman; landsmen; landt; landward; landwards; lanely; lanes; lanesome; lang; langa
  1. This lane had been paved centuries ago with stones of all sizes, from a moderate grindstone to that of a football.

  2. In a few minutes we were descending a lane so narrow that the gipsy van only cleared the walls of the houses on either side by three or four inches.

  3. Up over my table I have the little picture you sent of the "Lane that turned at last".

  4. My little old lane is glorified, even the barbed wire fence on either side scintillates.

  5. Miss Lane was to go; Madame Meran on Monday; Miss Gertrude was to have the week in New York.

  6. They turned into the lane and when they were by the kitchen she sprang out.

  7. Miss Lane had taught ten years, beginning when she was nineteen.

  8. Harry Lane had the 'Surrender of Cornwallis', and it was just fine.

  9. When the King passed, the next day, through the lane formed from the Chateau to the Hotel des Etats, there was a dead silence.

  10. In this position, happening to be in my carriage on a visit, I passed through the lane they had formed, without interruption.

  11. Sabre trailing, he moved slowly out into the open; and, at random, wandered into the little lane that led darkly down under green bushes to Letty's bridge.

  12. The left section swung on the centre to get its position; limber after limber dashed up, clashing and clanking, to drop its gun; caisson after caisson rounded to under partial cover in the farm lane to the right.

  13. Ailsa and Letty ran, stooping, into the lane where the stretchers were being hurried across the little footbridge.

  14. There's such a pretty lane along the creek behind the chapel.

  15. HONEY-BEE By Anatole France A Translation By Mrs. John Lane Illustrated By Florence Lundborg John Lane MCMXI TO H.

  16. Pat explained that his method was to drive down the Lane at a good gait and by picking out two or three of the star performers he would arouse them by a method peculiarly his own.

  17. I met him in the lane the day before he went away.

  18. He lingered at the work till after the last of the other pickers had with great baskets poised on head joined the long, weird procession, showing white in the dusk, that went winding through field and lane to the ginhouse.

  19. Then Fido trotted sadly down the lane to the pasture to talk with the old woodchuck about this strange thing.

  20. Down in the pasture at the end of the lane lived an old woodchuck.

  21. Supposing I admit that strange things have happened with regard to Mr. Fielding and his daughter which have resulted in their leaving Runton Place--even that she was there in the lane this afternoon--how does all this concern you?

  22. Out in the lane the silence of the summer night was suddenly broken by the regular tread of horses' feet and the rumbling of vehicles.

  23. He knocked to tell me that a carriage has stopped in the lane outside.

  24. In the lane behind they could hear the sound of galloping horses.

  25. Half a dozen horsemen were coming along the lane at steeplechase pace.

  26. This afternoon I distinctly heard the girl's voice in the lane outside.

  27. Lane perform'd the part of a most faithful and prudent servant to his Majesty, shewing her observance, when any opportunity would allow it, and at other times acting her part in the disguise with much discretion.

  28. Certain it is that Richard Storms rode him leisurely up the long hill and by the lane which led to the dilapidated house he had visited on the day of his misfortune, but without calling at the house.

  29. Wait a while, and you will see them coming down the lane together.

  30. A man's footstep, slow and heavy, turned from the lane and paused at the kitchen door.

  31. Coming back they had some conversation with the road-menders, and afterwards passed on up the lane towards the cottage.

  32. This broadside was printed at London, 'by Thomas Leach in Shooe Lane in the Year 1664.

  33. At the bend of the lane they stooped down and appeared to be looking for something among the dead leaves and brambles.

  34. Long Lane at this time looks very faire, and puts out her best cloaths, with the wrong side outward, so turned for their better turning off.

  35. Early on Saturday morning two labouring men were busy in Gill's Hill Lane repairing the road, when two gentlemen passed them on foot.

  36. Some country people passing in the neighbourhood of this lane about eight o'clock in the evening heard a shot fired and deep groans as if some one was injured.

  37. Oh speak not of the calm delights, That in the fields or lanes we win; The field and lane that me invites Is Chancery or Lincoln's Inn.

  38. The steps that lead from Maiden-lane to the Cyder-cellars are easy of descent, although the return is sometimes attended with slight difficulty.

  39. Fetter-lane is clearly alluded to by the poet.

  40. It is said that the classical manager of Drury Lane Theatre has secured a company of them to help the singers he has engaged to perform Richard the Third, Coriolanus, and other historical plays.

  41. There is a poor debtor of his in Horsemonger-lane prison--a debtor to the amount of at least a hundred shillings.

  42. As he reached the last curve of the lane where it looped about the apple trees, a plump figure came flying down the orchard slope.

  43. It was a dull grey November twilight; the maples in the hollow were all leafless, and the hawthorn hedge along the lane was sere and frosted; a little snow had fallen in the afternoon, and lay in broad patches on the brown fields.

  44. But her sudden anger floated away in a whiff of sweet-pea perfume that struck her in the face; she waved her hand in farewell to her callers and watched the buggy down the lane with a smile.

  45. At the top of the lane a wild plum tree hung out its branches of feathery bloom against the crimson sky.

  46. Jane Lavinia hurried down the lane and back to the house.

  47. At twilight Sara decided to walk up the lane and meet Willard.

  48. He passed down the lane and over the little rustic bridge that spanned the brook.

  49. Can you tell us where to find the wood-lane that cuts across to Blackburn Hill?

  50. Presently a wagon drove down her lane and pulled up outside of her white garden paling.

  51. The next evening was Dick's regular night for coming, but he didn't come, although Jill and I went down the lane a dozen times to watch for him.

  52. Beside it was a rickety, unpainted gate opening into a snake-fenced lane feathered here and there with scrubby little spruces.

  53. It was far more pleasant, they found, to stay at home and play in the cool lane or orchard, than to get up at four in the morning and tramp about all day long under the weight of heavy baskets.

  54. Bella ran up the lane with a very much lighter heart than she usually bore.

  55. Well, I want you to take Margery down the lane to Aunt Maggie, and ask her if she will give her something to eat.

  56. He had brought it home with him on purpose for her, and, that the children might not see it, he had hidden it in the hedge in the lane until he had an opportunity of planting it, for he wanted it to be a surprise for the little maiden.

  57. When the first shock and excitement and grief had calmed down, the little family at 'Lane End' found themselves faced with a problem which gave them enough to do and to think about.

  58. Consequently she wandered more than once down the lane to Mrs. Langley's little cottage.

  59. The Lane of Grennoch seemed to that comfortable English drover, Mr. Job Brown, like a bit of Warwickshire let into the moory boggish desolations of Galloway.

  60. So, while she gathered such things as she and the boy would need for a few days' stay, he strode back down the sunny lane to La Vauroque, to leave word of his wishes with Hamon's mother.

  61. It was close upon six o'clock when Gray Robin pricked up his ears at sound of hoofs in the lane between the high hedges, and young Torode rode up on Black Boy.

  62. And after a moment's thought I slipped away and ran quickly down the lane to La Vauroque, calling myself all manner of names through my teeth, and thumped lustily on George Hamon's door.

  63. At the last moment the expected nurse had fallen sick, and in his perplexity Mr. Tracy went to the cottage in the lane and begged of Mrs. Crawford to come and care for his wife.

  64. That will suit his wife, and as you will not care to stay with her, I send you a deed of that cottage in the lane by the wood where the gardener now lives.

  65. In the lane he saw Jerry coming toward him, with her sun-bonnet hanging down her back and her soft, curly hair blowing around her forehead.

  66. I saw her do it in the lane as I came up to you.

  67. Just now I prefer the cottage in the lane to any spot on earth.

  68. He had returned no calls, and had been but once to the cottage in the lane to see Mrs. Crawford.

  69. It was a lovely summer night, and the moonlight fell softly upon the grass and shrubs outside, and shone far down the long lane where the Tramp House stood, with its thick covering of woodbine.

  70. Beecher resigned his Boston pastorate to accept the presidency of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, Catharine and Harriet accompanying the family with the purpose of establishing a high grade school for young women.

  71. Will you look out of the window and see if the lane is empty?

  72. Already a lane had been prepared for them, and, trampling over dead and dying, they rushed through.

  73. IN A LION'S DEN Upon one side of the lane which the fugitives had entered ran a high wall.

  74. As he spoke the Russian cavalry came along the lane at full gallop.

  75. Next day, Mark tramped off alone, taking the lane which leads to the downs, and as he was passing the chalk-pit to the right of the village, Betty sprang into the road with a gay laugh.

  76. Grub Street is a long lane with no turning in it for nine-tenths of the foot passengers.

  77. The brothers came out of the vestry together, passed in silence through the churchyard, where Easter flowers were shining in the shadows cast by the lindens, crossed the village street, and strolled up the lane which led to Westchester Downs.

  78. Betty took a path which led to the lane running at right angles to the Westchester road.

  79. As they passed out of the lane on to the soft turf of the downs, the landscape widened till it became panoramic.

  80. Lane seminary at Cincinnati, a Presbyterian stronghold, became a center of enthusiastic anti-slavery effort, with the brilliant young Theodore D.

  81. Breckinridge of Kentucky and Joseph Lane of Oregon.

  82. Except for an occasional word he had hardly spoken by the time he had reached the corner of Willoughby's Lane and County Street.

  83. It was but little after four when he arrived at the house at the corner of Willoughby's Lane and County Street.

  84. At Willoughby's Lane he turned up the hill, not for any particular purpose, but because the tramping there would be a little harder.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; airline; airway; aisle; alley; ambulatory; aperture; arcade; arterial; artery; avenue; bypass; byway; causeway; channel; cloister; close; colonnade; communication; conduit; connection; corridor; court; crescent; defile; dike; drive; driveway; exit; expressway; ferry; ford; freeway; gallery; highroad; highway; inlet; interchange; intersection; junction; lane; mews; opening; outlet; overpass; parkway; pass; passage; passageway; path; pike; place; portico; road; roadbed; roadway; row; street; terrace; thoroughfare; tunnel; turnpike; underpass; way