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causeway

[ UK /kˈɔːzwe‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑzˌweɪ, ˈkɔzˌweɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. provide with a causeway
    A causewayed swamp
  2. pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles
NOUN
  1. a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand

How To Use causeway In A Sentence

  • The island is joined to the mainland by a causeway.
  • First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
  • He orders us into his Landrover and we skid across the causeway, the water rising with every revolution of the wheels, splashing above the windscreen.
  • O rare outgate from the scorn of the causeway to the smelting-house of 'Him who hath His fire in Zion!' Samuel Rutherford
  • The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air. Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
  • There was a causeway bridge which spanned the waterway a half a mile ahead.
  • The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
  • The debate also cast doubt about whether taxis have been charging too much for long rides from the causeway to Apex or Road To Nowhere.
  • A band of about thirty spearmen, with a pennon displayed before them, winded along the indented shores of the lake, and approached the causeway. The Abbot
  • Now Magdalena was approaching the Rickenbacker Causeway which linked Key Biscayne with Miami, a long stretch over black water. MAMBO
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