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How to use wayside in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, adjective

Wayside means the side of a road or path. Example: “Many wild flowers grew on the wayside.”

Examples of wayside by meaning

nounThe side of a road or path.

  • Many wild flowers grew on the wayside.

adjectiveSituated near the side of a road or path.

  • We stopped at a wayside pub.
  • Many of the wayside stations have staggered platforms, a common arrangement on the S.E.R.1957 August, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529

More sentences with wayside

  • "The train pulled up at a small wayside station, and we all descended.2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68. From the entry cob
  • Throughout the years, milk drinking has fallen by the wayside as soda drinking has gained in popularity.2011, David Campos, “Overview”, in Jump Start Health!: Practical Ideas to Promote Wellness in Kids of All Ages, New York, N.Y.: Teachers…. From the entry fall by the wayside
  • Octavius did not carry universal neighbourliness to the extent of encouraging prolonged wayside conversation.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry neighbourliness
  • The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3. From the entry cut
  • Not only has the infamous upgrade gone by the wayside, but cashiers at fast-food restaurants are becoming increasingly uncommon.2018 July 26, Hollis Johnson, “We tried the kiosks that analysts say could help McDonald's win back $2.7 billion in sales. Here's the…. From the entry kiosk
  • Finding the time to work out and cook healthy meals is easily pushed to the wayside in our ordinary, busy lives.2015 June 19, Jennifer Cohen, “Always busy? 8 ways to stay fit”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025. From the entry busy
  • He put all his focus and energy into his relationships, and all his dude friends just fell by the wayside.2009 March 20, John Hamburg, Larry Levin, I Love You, Man, spoken by Robbie Klaven (Andy Samberg). From the entry fall by the wayside
  • You pick de jumbie bead by de wayside, and run piece o’ string through dem, an’ you chargin’ me four dallaz?2007, Sislyn Peters, Undocumented Citizen, page 179. From the entry jumbie bead
  • There's this push — events, posters — that lasts for a year or two and then it goes by the wayside.2006, Black Enterprise, volume 36, numbers 6–12, page 98. From the entry diversity fatigue
  • Hercule--that is my husband's name, citizens--asked the corporal what the Committee of Public Safety wanted with us poor hoteliers of a wayside inn.2017 July 17, Emmuska Orczy, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (illustrated), →ISBN, →ISBN. From the entry hoteliers
  • LiveJournal, scholarship v. journalism, fact v. hearsay, amateur v. professional—fall by the wayside as the emphasis lands more on potentialities of reading and writing.2006, Joe Amato, Industrial poetics: demo tracks for a mobile culture. From the entry codework
  • But despite superhuman efforts to obey the all-wise party, they nevertheless fell by the wayside and were swept into the memory hole.1970 January–February, Hugh McLean, “Et Resurrexerunt: How Writers Rise from the Dead”, in Abraham Brumberg, editor, Problems of…. From the entry memory hole
  • Carrados's most substantial rug and went to sleep, to dream of a wayside cycle shop and tea-rooms where he could devote himself to pedigree Wyandottes.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry wyandotte
  • Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67. From the entry carpet

Meaning of wayside

  1. noun The side of a road or path.
  2. noun A rest area.
  3. adjective Situated near the side of a road or path.

Full definition of wayside

Questions about wayside in a sentence

How do you use wayside in a sentence?
Wayside is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Many wild flowers grew on the wayside.”
What is a short sentence with wayside?
“We stopped at a wayside pub.”
What does wayside mean?
Wayside means the side of a road or path.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayside (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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