How to Use cobblestone in a Sentence

cobblestone

noun
  • Now all that’s left are the stairs leading to its 30-foot cobblestone base.
    Thomas Graham, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
  • Yellow caution tape was set up around the cobblestone circle where the birds had hunkered down.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • This race will shake up in the first week with the Team Time Trial and the cobblestones.
    Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 6 July 2018
  • The grippy rubber sole provides traction on cobblestone streets, dirt paths, and more.
    Neha Tandon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
  • That a camera crew set its sights on the cobblestone streets of Dumbo is not at all surprising.
    Sam Hodgson, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Even during mid-corner panic stops on wet cobblestones, the system will keep a rider upright.
    Nick Goddard, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Long before the peloton sees a mountain range, the Tour de France will throw riders one of the biggest booby-traps in cycling: cobblestone roads.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • At last month’s European men’s shows, on the runways and cobblestone streets, a few trends emerged from the ether and solidified into full-blown style movements.
    Samuel Hine, GQ, 2 July 2018
  • Corktown has been one of these pockets, where restaurants and boutiques have opened in the past several years, anchored by cobblestone streets on Michigan Avenue.
    Tamara Warren, The Verge, 20 June 2018
  • Stay at the Adler Dolomiti, a centrally located resort whose large footprint covers several blocks of the cobblestone streets.
    Kelly Hushin, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The setting for the dinner—a cobblestone courtyard—was especially magical, thanks in no small part to Alexandria’s vision and attention to detail.
    John Dolan, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Aug. 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 of our knees were killing us though, because of all the cobblestone.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Routines here are as well-worn as the cobblestone streets.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • 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

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