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• His gray shape was a bandy legged bug crabbling up the dark cobblestones.2014, Darusha Wehm, Gary Cahill, Ian Creasey, Plan B Volume III: a mystery and crime anthology. From the entry crabble
• Laying on the jagged cobblestones, all I could do was take shaky breaths as I reeled from the white-hot pain.2022 August 15, Christine Ji, “Broken Ankles and Barriers to Accessibility: Reflections from a Skater-Turned-Scooter Girl”, in The…. From the entry darty
• Children also enjoy walking on a cobblestone street while looking for boot scrapers, gossip mirrors and historical artifacts.2008, “Field Trips”, in Kathie Meizner, Lisa Nevans Locke, Meg Thale, editors, Going Places with Children in Washington, DC, 17th edition…. From the entry gossip mirror
• Here and there you could still stumble across a cobblestone street, across eighteenth-century houses with painted cornices and street mirrors.2004, Rachel Pastan, This Side of Married, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry street mirror
• On a quaint cobblestone street in Houdan, customers file in and out of the Café de la Paroisse during the lunch rush.2025 February 10, Colette Davidson, “Farming in France is on the Decline. Who will Feed the French?”, in The Christian Science Monitor…. From the entry entrecôte
• As for the city's buildings, it mostly resembled a town of white spires and cobblestone streets lined with flowerbeds that were upkept by magical means.2014, James Blackthorne, Meditations of Madness: The Lost Empires Exposed. From the entry upkeep
• In the second step of the salt refining process the heated brine then goes into a graveler filled with cobblestones to remove the impurities.2006, We Family Publications and Consulting, Thou Shalt Not Abuse Thy Spouse, page 59. From the entry graveler
• Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!2000, Ciarán Carson, Fishing for Amber, page 143. From the entry eau de nil
• Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.1998, R. Kiernan, chapter 1, in Silk. From the entry bumpity
• Its cobblestone pavements prove “jigglesome” for jeeps, but the streets are broad and could be made into magnificent thoroughfares with a concrete covering.1948, Archibald Memory McMillan, “Beginning and Beckoning—Sowing the Seed in West China”, in For Christ in China, Nashville, Tennessee…. From the entry jigglesome
• I remember clearly the drive down Pennsylvania Avenue to the depot, the iron-tired wheels of our carriage rattling and bumping over the cobblestones.1925, Jesse R[oot] Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 37. From the entry tired

Meaning of cobblestone

1. noun A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
2. noun Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.

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How do you use cobblestone in a sentence?

Cobblestone is used as a noun. For example: “The road was paved in cobblestone.”

What is a short sentence with cobblestone?

“The road was paved in cobblestone.”

What does cobblestone mean?

Cobblestone means a rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.