kerbstone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A day after the article was published, Englishman Simon Andrews was killed after colliding with a kerbstone.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2014
Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row.
From Time Magazine Archive
She kept a cigar-shop in Havana, in the Calle del Comercio; a narrow street, with a footpath scarcely wider than an ordinary kerbstone.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
There, when his day’s work was done, the kerbstone merchant came to grill the cheap chop he had purchased.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
As she did so, she heard her name called; and, looking round, she saw Clara Bertram's face at the window of a cab drawn up near the kerbstone.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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