bankside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bankside
Example Sentences
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Mr Ing, from Langdon Hills, said his friends were unable to help until he could bring the catfish closer to the bankside.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
Within 18 months Pick had started to ascend the world rankings in boardercross and bankside slalom - which is a snowboard course with turns.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2018
A decayed vintner, sir, That might have thriv'd, but that your worship broke me, With trusting you with muscadine and eggs, And five pound suppers, with your after-drinkings, When you lodged upon the bankside.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
If, however, you are delightfully attended by "King's Daughters" with whom you sit and commune now and then on the bankside, the distance will seem to be much less.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard
At length the water-bed took a curve, The deep river swept its bankside bare; Waters streamed from the hill-reserve— Waters here, waters there.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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