574 examples of bicycles in sentences

Policemen on bicycles dashed along Unter den Linden proclaiming the joyful tidings.

Ox wagons, bundles and babies on dog-drawn carts or on men's backs, bicycles and handcarts laden with kitchen utensils, all mingled with the human stream.

"Turn the light on 'em!" Dick did as requested, and to their astonishment they beheld two young fellows on bicycles.

By the light of the lamp they saw where the others had leaped the fence and mounted their bicycles.

"That is where they keep the bicycles and such things.

"What's wanted?" "We want to look at the bicycles, Pinkey," answered Dick.

To this question the Rovers did not reply, for the reason that they had no bicycles at Brill.

Here were about twenty bicycles and half a dozen motor cycles, all belonging to various students.

"They must have loaned their bicycles to others.

We may be invited to see it merely as a marvel, much as we used to be invited to go and see the horse that could count or the monkeys that could ride bicycles.

We rattled along the hard highroad, paved with Belgian blocks, with a well-pounded dirt path at the side for bicycles, between almost uninterrupted rows of low houses and tiny fields in which men and women both were working.

These were common sights and sounds of that gracious country north of Parisdeserted, perhaps demolished, villages; the silent countryside, with dead horses, bits of broken shell, smashed bicycles or artillery wagons along the road; and the tainted autumn wind.

People afoot, driving carts or carriages, on bicycles and in automobiles, went by on the thoroughfare about the island, the Frenchmen always talking as if excited over cosmic affairs, and the natives laughing or calling to one another.

Four or five of these officials are about, all natives in gaudy uniforms, their bicycles at the curb, smoking, and exchanging greetings with friends.

It consisted of three men, a captain and two privates on bicycles.

This was true also of horses and bicycles.

Driving down the avenue one day, we counted eighty bicycles before reaching the post-office.

If he has revolutionized traffic on the water, so on the land has John Boyd Dunlop (still living), who discovered the pneumatic tire with such wide-spread results for motorcars, bicycles, and such means of locomotion.

And how the onlookers applaud at the spectacle of a desperately contested race, whether between horses, men, motorcars, bicycles, or boats, or of a match between football, hurling, or cricket teams!

It was evident my carts could not cross, but there was just a hope that they would let George and me through with our bicycles.

The stables, which were spacious, contained only a pony and the little cart I had driven up in, and a few bicycles.

NOTTINGHAM (214), capital of Nottinghamshire, on the Trent, 126 m. NW. of London; is a spacious and well-built town, with an arboretum, castle (now an art gallery), two theatres, university college, free library, old grammar-school, racecourse, &c.; is the centre of lace-making and hosiery in England, and manufactures cottons, silks, bicycles, cigars, needles, beer, &c.; a fine granite and iron bridge spans the river.

Time and custom have tamed him so that he lets horses, bicycles, and carriages pass; he can't quite help slinging a stone at an advertising van or any strange vehicle, while the automobile is altogether too much.

The Honolulu females of all races have flung away side saddles with their corsets, and bestride horses and mules with the confidence in the rectitude of their intentions that so besets and befits the riders of bicycles.

There are no beautiful lamp-posts, beautiful letter-boxes, beautiful engines, beautiful bicycles.

574 examples of  bicycles  in sentences