kerbstone
IPA: kˈɝbstoʊn
noun
- A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
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Examples of "kerbstone" in Sentences
- The wheels of a cab grazed the kerbstone, a murmured direction followed.
- The zappee only has to fall badly and hit his head on a kerbstone and he could be dead.
- But there was nothing funny about the crunching thud as his forehead bounced off the kerbstone.
- We suspect that she had a brief faint when at the wheel last week, when she bumped against a kerbstone.
- I did the only thing possible in that mental tumult; I walked straight to the kerbstone and held up my umbrella for a cab.
- After all, one used to think that the old — and Sir Lawrence winced on the kerbstone of Piccadilly — were only fit to be measured for their coffins.
- Detectives said the kerbstone, which has the inscription "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was taken sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.
- The practise of harmonising popular tunes by ear became popular throughout the 1920s in places where men met up regularly – in barbershops, for instance, although the style was also referred to as "kerbstone harmony".
- She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures.
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