How to Use cobblestone in a Sentence
cobblestone
noun-
This race will shake up in the first week with the Team Time Trial and the cobblestones.
— Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 6 July 2018 -
And ditch the high heels, which will not do well on the city’s many old cobblestone streets.
— Sara McCarty, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018 -
Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
— Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023 -
The road itself is made of cobblestones and is about five feet wide.
— National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2019 -
Both wore dark suede spike heels on the cobblestones outside the abbey.
— Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Both of our knees were killing us though, because of all the cobblestone.
— Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023 -
Now all that’s left are the stairs leading to its 30-foot cobblestone base.
— Thomas Graham, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018 -
Today, a double row of cobblestones marks the place where the wall once stood.
— Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019 -
The couple strut down the runway — a cobblestone street — in stylish streetwear.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023 -
The cobblestone streets and stone bridges are growing moss.
— Anto Antony, Bloomberg.com, 18 June 2018 -
Routines here are as well-worn as the cobblestone streets.
— Eric Lipton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019 -
People bike up to the top to tour the castle and wander the village’s cobblestone streets.
— Julie O'Rourke, Bon Appetit, 16 Feb. 2018 -
Many ended up piled on top of each other in the narrow cobblestone streets of the course.
— BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022 -
The camera rushes up the cobblestone side streets onto the wide boulevard of the Champs-Élysées.
— Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020 -
The tour goes through hilly areas of Alton and some cobblestone streets, which could make for a bumpy ride.
— Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Sneakers will be your best friend on this leg of the trip since there'll be hills and cobblestones aplenty.
— Sally Holmes, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019 -
The rule is in effect on most of Paris's medieval cobblestone streets.
— Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2021 -
The zoo bears only touched concrete, cobblestones and rock with their large, padded feet.
— Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2019 -
The scent of bread and scrubbed cobblestone lures me down through the capital’s passages and narrow streets.
— Anne Farrar, National Geographic, 18 June 2019 -
And charming cobblestone streets filled with bars and restaurants and shops.
— Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 -
Enjoy morning runs along the beach, strolls through the historic cobblestone streets, and drives on the sandy white beaches.
— Kara Thompson, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2022 -
Rain, snow, sleet, sun, gravel, grass, cobblestone, cement—it’s been through the ringer.
— Samantha Leal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2024 -
People rip up their lawns and replace them with bricks and cobblestones.
— Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023 -
The picturesque views, cobblestone streets, and non-stop servings of pasta and wine felt like a slice of heaven on earth.
— Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 11 June 2019 -
This is the sort of film in which the first few minutes are just a long, slow shot of water being brushed across a cobblestone driveway by a broom.
— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018 -
The city's cobblestone streets and walls are used to represent the ancient world in House of the Dragon, according to Booking.com.
— Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2022 -
Here on these cobblestone streets, the closest thing to wildlife is the odd herd of drunk co-eds stumbling out of nearby house parties.
— Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 5 June 2018 -
At one point, Biden walked the cobblestone streets barefoot, the magazine says.
— Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022 -
Strolling down cobblestone streets on a crisp fall/winter morning?
— Laura Jackson, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024 -
Now, teams race in opposite directions on cobblestone streets, which can be hard on the makeshift racing couches.
— Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2024
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