roadside
Americannoun
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roadsides
plural
adjective
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The highs and lows of vibrant urban life are on display in scenes of a roadside barber and a subway arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Her father, Kandaiah Jayapalan, was a government employee who also ran a roadside café not far from Chemmani.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt which bears evidence of a roadside repair, Karl - sporting a grey beard - appears in the car park of a Belgian railway station.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
AFP footage showed the overturned bus and its wreckage scattered along the roadside.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Frankie and I found our way back to the roadside and walked along it for a while.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
American roadsides and strip malls are stocked with retailers offering competitive pricing and an aversion to soft lighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
More floral arrangements depicting China's fight against Japan sit proudly on prominent roadsides and roundabouts.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
Today, the company says almost half of its shops are now in alternative locations such as petrol forecourts, roadsides, transport hubs, retail parks, supermarkets, universities and hospitals.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
I first noticed them while driving away from Antonito, Colo. They didn’t fan out across fields but clustered on roadsides, like the weeds that grow alongside Southern California freeways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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