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SIDEWALK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway
Synonyms:
pavement; sidewalk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sidewalk" is a kind of...):
paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)
Meronyms (substance of "sidewalk"):
pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)
Context examples:
When he left the car, he strode along the sidewalk as a wrathful man will stride, and he rang the Morse bell with such viciousness that it roused him to consciousness of his condition, so that he entered in good nature, smiling with amusement at himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There were always numbers of men who stood on the sidewalk outside, and he could pull his cap down over his eyes and screen himself behind some one's shoulder so that she should not see him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Fine gentlemen smiled at her benevolently as they talked with Martin and one another; a type-writer clicked; signatures were affixed to an imposing document; her own landlord was there, too, and affixed his signature; and when all was over and she was outside on the sidewalk, her landlord spoke to her, saying, Well, Maria, you won't have to pay me no seven dollars and a half this month.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
. . . One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
One October day in nineteen-seventeen—(said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel)—I was walking along from one place to another half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Sure he went,"—Mr. Wolfshiem's nose flashed at me indignantly—"He turned around in the door and says, 'Don't let that waiter take away my coffee!' Then he went out on the sidewalk and they shot him three times in his full belly and drove away."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
