Sentence examples for by the roadside but from inspiring English sources

Rumour has it that George Osborne has an exciting new idea to get pensioners out collecting litter from motorways, then fashioning it into sculptures that they sell by the roadside – but the proceeds from that are urgently required to fund "fruit baskets of welcome" for non-doms.

Some elderly women sat by the roadside, but there were no children or families in sight outside.

I sell some tomatoes by the roadside but this does not make any money at all.

If she'd said "Your car sucks toads," we would have dumped it by the roadside and walked (but she would never have said that -- she was much too classy).

This world of camper vans by the roadside seemed desperately exotic, but my dad used to explain that we'd be very cramped inside a camper van and the cooking of our holiday biryani on that tiny cooker could only set the thing on fire.

A 21-year-old drifter named Bennie Bedwell told investigators that he and another man beat the girls and dumped their bodies by the roadside, the Associated Press reported, but later recanted the confession, saying he only said it so that the cops would let him go.

He tells me to do it by the roadside, in front of the refuse, but I ignore him and walk across the road, around the dancing mob, and through a gap between two shops.

But that goal fell by the roadside.

Competitors do not use roadkill, but rather animals typically found by the roadside.

I found that difficult to accept, but Tadesse pointed to the Saho men by the roadside.

He demurred at first but finally sat down sullenly in the thick grass by the roadside.