: the strip of land along a road : the side of a road
roadside
adjective
Examples of roadside in a Sentence
a hamburger stand on the roadside
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Her baby arrived by the roadside with support from her mother and nearby residents.
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Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
By the nineteen-nineties, Uniclo had expanded to more than a hundred locations, many of them barnlike roadside emporiums where customers could pull in and grab a pack of underwear.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
At this roadside stand, soft-serve cones, towering sundaes, and nostalgia-inducing banana splits taste best eaten under string lights in the warm evening air.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
If the roadside is your only option, pull off as far as possible, preferably past the end of a guard rail, and wait until the storm passes.
—Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
By the nineteen-nineties, Uniclo had expanded to more than a hundred locations, many of them barnlike roadside emporiums where customers could pull in and grab a pack of underwear.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
At this roadside stand, soft-serve cones, towering sundaes, and nostalgia-inducing banana splits taste best eaten under string lights in the warm evening air.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
If the roadside is your only option, pull off as far as possible, preferably past the end of a guard rail, and wait until the storm passes.
—Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for roadside
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“Roadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roadside. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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