How do you use the word "road" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "road" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "road": It's a long road with no curves. A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill.

Road Meaning

/ɾoːɖ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.

nounRoads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.

Sentence Examples

It's a long road with no curves.

A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill.

She rode off down the road with the dog running behind.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

route

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The narrow muddy ____ led through the dense forest to the village.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The new ____ cut through the forest, reducing the journey time between the two towns by thirty minutes.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway). The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late — Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar — and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway (“a way for riding on”) as saying way twice, in other words as a tautological compound.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road." — 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:

"I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"And the road doesn't end / It's a long, long road and we follow it again and again / And the road don't pretend" — 2018, Bill Wurtz, “Long Long Long Journey”:

"He stirred up his hair with his sprightliest expression, glanced at the little figure again, said ‘Good evening, ma ‘am; don’t come down, Mrs Affery, I know the road to the door,’ and steamed out." — 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

"Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty." — 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:

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