Used in a Sentence

cobblestone

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cobblestone.

Editorial note

They're really only good for a few blocks of downtown where the streets are flat cobblestone.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cobblestone gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.

noun

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cobblestone.

noun

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

Example sentences

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They're really only good for a few blocks of downtown where the streets are flat cobblestone.

2

Aaron was to her a conveniently placed cobblestone that she could put her spiked heel on to make it to the next level.

3

I seem to remember that cobblestone roads were almost as slippery as ice whenever it rained.

4

I like being able to ride over cobblestone without getting shaken down for my lunch money.

5

However, they don't necessarily have recall of every pothole and cobblestone.

6

I absolutely love dust but then he also made the sequel cobblestone which was one of the most frustrating maps ever created!

7

I grew up in a town that actually had cobblestone streets (long story, Europe).

8

You don't memorize every cobblestone and pothole, but you know how to get where you need to go you can deal with them as you're driving.

9

Once installed, your glass blocks will provide the ride comfort, noise, safety, of brick or cobblestone roads but less durable and more slippery.

10

The cobblestone streets in parts of Buenos Aires are brutal on a bicycle, but I still pedal over them in preference to walking the bike.

11

As a daily bike commuter of 10 miles including some cobblestone streets this looks completely unusable for regular commuting, but kind of fun for some casual weekend biking in the park.

12

Once I manger to turn that fact up under some cobblestone, I quickly found a thread in which many, many Add-Onmusers also desperately struggled but a Mozilla employee set them straight.

Quote examples

1

I hopped down a short bump, maybe 2" where the pavement turned into cobblestone.

2

In the third one down, on the "new" photo, you can distinctly see the cobblestone path that snakes through the city centre representing where the wall once stood.

Proper noun examples

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Cobblestone, Ice, Pumpkins, and Melons all do this and are thankfully Redstone distinguishable, so we at least have our endless supply of symbols for such a tape.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cobblestone in a sentence?

They're really only good for a few blocks of downtown where the streets are flat cobblestone.

What does cobblestone mean?

(uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.

What part of speech is cobblestone?

cobblestone is commonly used as noun.