sidewalk

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At 2mph a sidewalk is fine, but at 15mph it tries to shake your bicycle apart.

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walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

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noun

walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sidewalk.

noun

walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

Example sentences

At 2mph a sidewalk is fine, but at 15mph it tries to shake your bicycle apart.

" Cracked, shitty sidewalk, would be cheaper to rebuild it than sue.

This happens in the real world too, aka the sidewalk effect.

They lay the sidewalk outside while it's below freezing out.

So there's nowhere I could charge my car at home; I can't exactly run a power cord down and across the sidewalk to my car.

Here comes a guy pushing a metal cart laden with 3-liter cans of corn oil barreling towards you down the sidewalk!

It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flame yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling Dont!

With stupendous effort he rose to his feet and then through sheer willpower got his bearings and tried walking on the sidewalk.

The sidewalk on the Brooklyn Bridge is woefully inadequate for everything anyway so I don't really blame them for using the road.

Well, please draw out the full mechanical diagram of a manual transmission.- You are going down the street and an old lady steps suddenly off the sidewalk.

The cutouts in the sidewalk for wheelchairs are now used by everyone else too for their: strollers, bikes, shopping carts, and anyone else who doesn't want to raise their foot an extra couple of inches.

At off-peak periods, you'll play air conditioner drip Frogger and try to get to your destination without being slimed with a melange of condensation, pigeon poop, and algae/mold/bacteria by inferring a safe path from the locations of puddles on the sidewalk.

A Kickstarter campaign is emphatically not a crowd-sourced angel investment: it's a busker's hat, with basically the same responsibilities and obligations that a street musician has to her audience of sidewalk quarter-droppers.

I deftly dodged a piece of human shit on the sidewalk on my way to work without missing a beat, how delightfully urban-sophisticate!I've never before lived in a place where violent crime, rampant substance abuse, and extreme poverty was treated in such a blase way, and often glorified as "vibrancy" and "color".

Socially progressive\n * Walkable cities, sidewalk cafes, beaches\n * GMO's are banned, food is natural and unprocessed.\n * Good electoral system, proportional representation\n * Politicians care about building consensus and getting stuff done.\n * Fantastic & cheap health care system\n * Not consumerist, people care more about friends & family than things.\n * No traffic / pollution problems related to cars.