Avenues
['ævə,njʊ]
Examples
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The avenues and plazas of Helium were filled with people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The bridge is divided into five avenues: one central one for foot passengers, two outer ones for vehicles, and the others for the street cars. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I expect several persons to call to-day, and it will be inconvenient to have the avenues to the house crowded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mists hide in the avenues, veil the points of view, and move in funeral-wise across the rising grounds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From it two avenues of stones, each a mile and a half long, ran west and south on either side of Silbury Hill. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But suppose that politics were made responsive--suppose that the forces of the community found avenues of expression into public life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The trees in no two avenues are shaped alike, and consequently the eye is not fatigued with anything in the nature of monotonous uniformity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Safe I passed down the avenues--safe I mixed with the crowd where it was deepeSt. To be still was not in my power, nor quietly to observe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On the evening before our departure I saw them approaching along one of the great avenues which lead into the plaza from the east. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Lust has a thousand avenues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Fling Paris back into the distance, then, exchanging it for endless avenues and cross-avenues of wintry trees! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They have assembled from many distant places; the ground between the avenues and Silbury Hill is dotted with their encampments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The windows opened upon a great balcony which overlooked one of the broad avenues of Zodanga. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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