cobblestone
Example Sentences
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On Saturday night, protesters threw stones at the office of the party president in Nice, on the French Riviera, and left a message scrawled on a wall: “The motion or the cobblestone.”
From New York Times
Outside, scaffolding and cranes are as common as the sound of the tourists’ suitcase wheels clattering along the calçada portuguesa, the city’s iconic squared cobblestones.
From Seattle Times
Protesters with covered faces threw cobblestones torn from the pavement at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannons as they slowly pushed the diminishing crowds into surrounding streets.
From New York Times
It’s common to see and hear visitors dragging suitcases over the cobblestones.
From Seattle Times
Kyiv is a grand city of broad, sweeping avenues, bisected by narrower streets often paved with lumpy cobblestones.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
