Sentence examples for down the roadside from inspiring English sources

In the road, he shines the light down the blacktop and then walks down the roadside ditch until he comes to the helmet.

Further down the roadside a large tin barrel of smoking black tar is being poured onto the road by men wearing patterned scarves over their noses.

Wheelchair athletes at the University of Illinois train on flat country roads, moving past fields of soybean and corn, and past farmers who, over decades, have grown accustomed to seeing wheelchairs zoom down the roadside.

But the sight of columns of Palestinian refugees trudging down the roadside sickened her, evoking her parents' stories of European persecutions and the resonance of the homeless, wandering Jew.

Later that morning, when the fire had died down, they found the truck farther down in the roadside gully.

But once rates start to turn around, as they inevitably will, trading back down to the roadside motel will be an easier transition given the upgrades.

In the hazy, frantic moments between running on to the burning bus and laying the woman - unconscious, her hair razed, her dress and nylons melted into her skin - gently down on the roadside, the crowd evaporated.

He claims that he sat down by the roadside and spent the next hour in a trance, drenching his coat in tears, overcome by the insight that progress, contrary to what Enlightenment philosophes said about its civilizing and liberating effects, was leading to new forms of enslavement.

Our vehicle growled its way up a steep hill, slowed down by the roadside, and came to a screeching halt on the flanks of a sprawling upland rice farm.

If your car should break down, the service provides roadside assistance and pays for all but $50 of the repair cost.

The South African government faced criticism over the weekend after it confirmed reports that the military ambulance carrying Mr. Mandela to the hospital had broken down, leaving him waiting on the roadside until a replacement vehicle arrived.