Sentence examples for upon the sidewalk from inspiring English sources

I cried as I followed the Rainbow Honor Walk through the Castro, especially when I came upon the sidewalk square honoring Allen Ginsberg, my dearly departed mentor, who would have been so delighted to see this day.

Lying soggily upon the sidewalks were leaflets reading "An unemployed agitator ceases to agitate.

"People above Forty-third Street," read The New York Times the following day, "stopped and rushed back the other way as she swung around the corner and down; vehicles switched off to the curbs or put on full speed ahead; plunging horses dragged carriages upon the sidewalks; pedestrians dived into the nearest shops".

Instead, I had to arrive at a mutually agreed-upon time and stand on the sidewalk patiently and quietly until Roberto opened the door.

Three police officers riding in a marked squad car came upon Calvin and Ryan walking on the sidewalk down a side street.

Maybe the real reason smokers don't do more to resist the indignities society heaps upon them — the taxes, the sidewalk banishments, the reproaches — is that they're secretly grateful.

"Wow, look at that," he said as if happening upon a signed Matisse on the sidewalk.

A girl walking home from school sees a swastika carved in the sidewalk, which upon investigation turns out to be a routine surveyor's mark.

The New Yorker, February 7 , 1959P. 24 On Ninth Street, the other day, we came upon a chalked inscription on the sidewalk reading, "Janie is a litter-bug".

By Norman T. Burns and John McCarten The New Yorker, February 7 , 1959P. 24 On Ninth Street, the other day, we came upon a chalked inscription on the sidewalk reading, "Janie is a litter-bug".

"Up until that moment my heart had been like, like... .. as she searched for the right word, we came upon a manhole cover on the sidewalk.