wide place in the road
Example Sentences
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Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they had gone far enough, and had reached a wide place in the road, Mrs. Cliff turned and started back to Plainton.
From Mrs. Cliff's Yacht by Frank Richard Stockton
But in the whole fifteen miles they met only one other motor, and fortunately that was at a wide place in the road.
From The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery by Allen Chapman
They still exist on the blueprint and the Oklahoma metropolis on paper is yet a wide place in the road.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Ralph Parlette
