C1

sidewalk English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word sidewalk once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning sidewalk meaning

What does sidewalk mean?

Definitions in simple English

sidewalk Noun

— A sidewalk is a long piece of ground beside a road for walking on. It is safer to walk on the sidewalk than on the road.

sidewalk

— noun walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

Synonyms sidewalk synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sidewalk?

sidewalk English » English

pavement

footpath

walkway

walk

paving

pathway

footway

way

side walk

shoulder

service road

road

promenade

humanity

foot-pavement

carriageway

busway

access road

Topics sidewalk topics

What do people use sidewalk to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Yard

• What words refer to the area around a house?
  yard front yard back yard patio courtyard garden driveway sidewalk outside

Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

• What are the parts of a road?
  center line shoulder edge median lane passing lane bed roadbed surface pavement sidewalk curb

Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk

• What words refer to a place where a person walks?
  sidewalk walkway promenade path footpath stepping-stone

Examples sidewalk examples

How do I use sidewalk in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk.

The flower pot crashed to the sidewalk.

There was a sunshade over the sidewalk.

You shouldn't ride a bicycle on the sidewalk.

The angry chimp went up the sidewalk and ripped everybody's face off.

Tom found a wallet lying on the sidewalk.

Remove the bike from the sidewalk!

Tom and Mary walked down the busy sidewalk.

This sidewalk is a lot narrower than the one across the road.

Tom stood on the sidewalk talking to Mary.

They walked while trying to avoid the lines in the sidewalk.

Tom was seated at a table by the sidewalk.

There's ice on the sidewalk and it's slippery.

You are not allowed to ride your bike on the sidewalk.

They were clearing the snow from the sidewalk with a shovel.

Clear the sidewalk of the bicycles.

I found a coin on the sidewalk.

Tom found a wallet on the sidewalk.

Tom was lying unconscious on the sidewalk.

Tom sprinkled ashes on the icy sidewalk.

The children drew pictures on the sidewalk with chalk.

Movie subtitles

Three kiddies on the sidewalk get lead poured in their bellies.

No empty shells were found in the street nor on the sidewalk, and the bullet's trajectory indicates the shot was not fired from a window but rather from a point almost level with the victim's head.

If you even speak to that girl they throw you out on the sidewalk.

You were standing on the sidewalk yelling, and looking very silly.

And we're gonna let you walk on the sidewalk.

Trees, cracks in the sidewalk, lampposts. I'm going mad.

Every time she walks on a slippery sidewalk, is near something that can fall, drives an automobile - anything that could result in an accidental death - her life is in danger.

Listen to this paper I found on the sidewalk.

He and the baron were on the sidewalk.

Anyway, he saw me and stepped off the sidewalk to meet me.

Lying on the sidewalk, huh?

Right off the sidewalk.

Do they think I'm going to spend my life clowning on the sidewalk while you eat vanilla ice-creams with them?

Conducting sidewalk services, street singing.

If I don't hurry up, the cop is gonna dispossess me from the sidewalk.

Back on the sidewalk.

Every time it rains those fireplugs pop out of the sidewalk like mushrooms.

There's a window on the third floor. You can make the sidewalk in one jump.

I've been standing for hours on the sidewalk while you drummed away.

If all his old sweethearts were laid end to end I'd use them as a sidewalk.

He and the Baron were on the sidewalk.

To the theatre world, New Haven, Connecticut, is a short stretch of sidewalk between the Shubert Theatre and the Taft Hotel, surrounded by what looks very much like a small city.

Poldi, don't you dare drop puddles on the sidewalk?

I played tag with a.38 to get this stuff, and this trail stops cold on the 5th Avenue sidewalk.

The ice on the sidewalk.

Crowd catcher at the Greenwich Village Sidewalk Show.

Shipping call is every hour, on the hour, but there's no standing in line or idling on a sidewalk in between.

You bury him under the sidewalk and cement it up again.

And the sidewalk?

All right, folks, back on the sidewalk.

Back on the sidewalk, please.

He bangs his head too hard on the sidewalk.

Aaaa - ah, and that I might be sitting quietly at a sidewalk cafe Opera Square reading my newspaper, or even your blount, in a pinch!

News and current affairs

But just as a bird is happier in a cage the size of an auditorium and even happier when flying free, we walk better on a sidewalk three or ten meters wide.

In the Netherlands, Theo Van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam sidewalk in retaliation for his film Submission, which criticized Islam's treatment of women.

Their businesses include small stores or a stand on a busy sidewalk selling specific goods or providing some service.