Example sentences for: bicycle

How can you use “bicycle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bicycle rental companies (see page 103) also run tours.

  • When cars became a problem in the old town they gave the bicycle priority, and now there are over 1,000,000 on the streets — and an estimated 30,000 at the bottom of the canal system at any one time!

  • The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.

  • I had never noticed it before, but the reason that the old-fashioned bicycle was named the penny-farthing was that the large front wheel bore the same proportion to the tiny one at the rear as a (British) penny bore to a farthing.

  • Today the park is a delightful landscape of woods, rhododendron groves, small lakes, and hills, with an arboretum, botanic gardens, sports fields, bicycle routes, riding stables, buffalo paddock, and hiking trails.


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