Example sentences for: sidewalk

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

  • I rarely see people using cell phones on the sidewalk when they are in the company of other people.

  • In a transformation no less dramatic than the Harbourfront, the hippy slum of the 1960s has been refurbished into a chic neighborhood of fashionable boutiques, art galleries, sidewalk cafés, gourmet restaurants, and colorfully repainted old houses.

  • Bordered on the east by New York's fabled skid row, the Bowery, and on the south by Little Italy, it still has something of the flavor of a faded ethnic neighborhood, with Italian butchers and windowless social clubs and old people sitting out on card chairs on the sidewalk.

  • He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.

  • On Page 13 there's a shot of New York schoolboys admiring a sidewalk assortment of metal windup toys.


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