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
Councillor Currie said the seed of his idea grew out of envy of the grand infrastructure in the Western Isles ‘where they've had causeways and bridges and they are all linked up’.
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
Hell be a Teviotdale tup tat ane, said the chairman, tat s for keeping ta crown o ta causeway tat gate; hell no gang far or hell get somebody to bell ta cat wi him. Chapter XXXVI
Coastal rains, which are set to continue, have flooded some local access roads and causeways, particularly in the rural areas.
The last part of the drive on a road causewayed through the endless mangrove swamp impresses the imagination strongly by its dolefulness. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
You've seen the Broken Bridge on the White Causeway in Hangzhou's West Lake, haven't you?
The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill. Castle Dangerous
Bridges, causeways and other manmade trafficways are not always capable of supporting them, and even those that are can erode quickly under repeated use.
The Giant's Causeway is off the north coast and Belfast Lough indents the south-east coastline.
The boat was found laden with a cargo of flattish sandstone blocks, presumably brought to add to the causeway.
A small troop was threading the causeway at a good pace.
View from the shoebox apartment, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Now Magdalena was approaching the Rickenbacker Causeway which linked Key Biscayne with Miami, a long stretch over black water. MAMBO
Conan turned his gaze up the road to where the last of their party was crossing the broken causeway, via an unsteady ropeway floored with charred planking salvaged from the castle. Conan The Warlord
I bet on both Giant's Causeway and Tiznow using across the board tickets on both and boxing the two of them in the exacta.
It had been quite possible to walk to the causeway stone, which was situated 60 yards further out to sea to the town outfall, and which was only seen on rare occasions.
Here a huge column of curiously contorted basalt has been connected by a solid high-arched causeway with the cliff, which is equally remarkable, showing a central boss of stone with lines radiating quaquaversally. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Female speaker Walking over that causeway is very scary.
The Causeway also offers an unexcelled view of ships entering and leaving this seventh wonder of the world.
A short walk along the causeway to Horrid Hill is a must, followed by a longer walk along the tideline to the reedbeds at Motney Hill RSPB Reserve.
They were rammed up against rows of oak posts - first found during earlier excavations in 1981-which once formed either a jetty, or a causeway to a sandbank in the middle of the river.
If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path. The Three Brontes
Here's a bra 'din, indeed, about an auld wife gaun to the grave, a young limmer to the close-heads and causeway, and a sticket stibbler [A student of divinity who has not been able to complete his studies on theology.] to the sea instead of the gallows!' Redgauntlet
There will be two full-day tours comprising a visit to the Giant's Causeway, Inishowen and a half-day tour of Derry City.
His body was found near the causeway going towards Railway Station.
At the southern end of the causeway are five control gates that can be raised to regulate flow, and a vertical-slot fishway of 19 pools with a height difference of 30.5 cm in each step.
Beyond an employment project for cured leprosy patients, the road became a causeway across flooded land. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
I'll be honest: the most exciting thing about the film for me was that the climactic segment is set in a steampunk elvish subterranean vault under the Giant's Causeway. Linkspam for 10-6-2009
The result of all this was to show that the cursus had always been a single, banked-up pathway between ditches - in other words not really a cursus at all, more a ceremonial causeway or dyke.
The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland.
The Causeway farmer said since the new parlour was installed milk yields have increased by 180 gallons per cow and it is still rising.
After the engagement last weekend, the portion of the temple closest to Thailand showed the marks of the fighting, with chips and chunks cut out of a column and of a wall of the fourth gopura, or entrance building, along the temple's causeway. NYT > Home Page
I walked the empty causeway and climbed up the still intact stairways to be surrounded by silence and my own thoughts.
The regular rhythm of solid and void evokes the basalt columns of the Causeway and, more practically, suits the repetitive nature of hotel plans - here, rooms and suites are simply double-banked off spinal corridors.
The two countries are linked by a causeway over a narrow strait which separates the two sides.
The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
The Modular Causeway System provides a means to move cargo from the ship to shore across unimproved beaches in areas of the world where fixed port facilities are unavailable, denied or otherwise unacceptable.
My wife and girls fell instantly into dreams while I navigated a causeway suspended between an indigo sky and the sable sea, two voluptuous bodies winking at each other like old lovers.
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
This name signifies in Arabic causeway, paved or flagged road, and a milliary mentioned by Sterrett (Corpus inscript. latin., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The three-mile causeway that links it to the mainland is submerged twice a day. Times, Sunday Times
Immediately after the causeway, head right through a gate and follow the lakeside path straight on then through woodland to reach a lane across your path.
The avenue, very steep and narrow, and causewayed with large round stones, ascended the side of the precipitous bank in an oblique and zigzag course, now showing now hiding a view of the tower and its exterior bulwarks, which seemed to rise almost perpendicularly above their heads. Old Mortality
The long duration of the eclipse cycle would help link the causeway to those who had gone before. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Sometimes they are connected with the mainland by a causeway, but usually there is no appearance of any; and a small canoe has been, with but very few exceptions, discovered in or near each crannoge. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
Just southwest of the city, on a 200-foot-high hill, the castle of Chapultepec commanded key causeways and was the site of a military college.
As the road, at this point, was frequently flooded a raised causeway or footpath was built to give access.
Where the causeway swept up from the street to the gate of the castle, the beggars who followed the king's camp had taken up new stations, hopeful and expectant, for the king's justiciar, Bishop Robert of Salisbury, had arrived to join his master, and brought a train of wealthy and important clerics with him. One Corpse Too Many
The island is remote but connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway. Times, Sunday Times
By the time I had got down to the causeway it stood cleanly cut against a speedwell-blue streak of sky.
An inventor's son, Gatling designed his first mechanical machine gun in 1861 as a weapon of defence, to protect bridges, buildings, and causeways against assault.
Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of late 20th-century art as the most intractable of obstacles. A Minimalist Artist With a Modernist Bent
Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road. Kesh & Loaning
We went through country characteristic of the levels: narrow causeways lined by pollarded willow, where banks protect the roadway from the often swollen rhynes. Country Diary: The Somerset Levels
Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed. The Bride of Lammermoor
The long duration of the eclipse cycle would help link the causeway to those who had gone before. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
At this time nothing seemed to interest him more than the account of the two Giants Causeways, or groups of pris - matic basaltine columns, in the Venetian states, in Italy, in fhe LXVth. volume of the Philosophical Transactions, com - The general biographical dictionary. Revised by A. Chalmers
Caravans tied to the ground with strong chains, and spume blowing over the causeways which link South and North Uist bear testament to the power of the wind and sea.
There is little question that the uniqueness of the habitat and biota was greater before the causeway was built.
Homes damaged by the ferocious January gale in which five members of the same family were killed on the island of South Uist are still being repaired and walls protecting roads and causeways from the sea have gaping holes in them.
The cloverleaf where Interstate 10 meets the causeway became a kind of crude sorting place.
(for that old building stood solitary amidst its grounds a little apart from the spacious platform on which the society of the Hill was concentrated), but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gaslamps; the gayer shops still-unclosed, the tide of busy life only slowly ebbing from the still-animated street, on to a square, in which the four main thoroughfares of the city converged, and which formed the boundary of Low A Strange Story — Volume 01
First mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Chioggia developed as a fishing and lacemaking town and is today connected by a causeway to the Italian mainland.
You have to read your tides right - otherwise you could find yourself stranded on the rocky causeway that connects the promontory to the mainland.
A causewayed swamp
New Road was shut until 8.45 am and queues of traffic built up back to The Causeway.
Onward and upward he led until all at once we reached a narrow platform, railed round and hung about with plaited rope screens which he called splinter-mats, over which I had a view of land and water, of ships and basins, of miles of causeways and piers, none of which had been in existence before the war. Great Britain at War
Because he also can't leave the county, there is effectively only one place he can go: a rat-infested strip of land beneath a causeway where other sex offenders have erected a shantytown. Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
He added: ‘When we heard about the causeway being breached we were sorrowful.’
Nine dumper trucks carrying 35 tonnes of rock at a time plough backwards and forwards from the lip of the causeway, dumping smaller rocks and huge armouring against the tides.
She never returned and was found in Scarden Beg on a rough area of ground close to the causeway that leads out to the island.
The promontory, jammed with red-tiled roofs, was once an island, but had for centuries been joined to the mainland by a narrow causeway.
From the land side, it was only approachable by a causeway across the swamp, and this was guarded by a strong ravelin, which is the military name for an outwork erected beyond the ditch of a fortress. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
One year a group missed the low tide and had to cross by the road causeway. Times, Sunday Times
At the other end of the cone shaped island was a two mile long causeway with tall stone pillars as markers connected to the mainland near Strandhill.
The boat was found next to a causeway - a double line of posts packed with brushwood and stones - running from the shore to one of the islands.
At the end of the causeway the road started to slope upwards.
A short walk along the causeway to Horrid Hill is a must, followed by a longer walk along the tideline to the reedbeds at Motney Hill RSPB Reserve.
An archway on the western side of the pool opens on the causeway, bordered with balustrades of fretted marble, and, at close intervals there are standard lamps, their great lanterns set upon the marble columns.
She slept on the ground that night, in the open air beneath the causeway bridge. Times, Sunday Times
In reality this is more of a spit of land than an island, and it was slightly disappointing to find that the causeway wouldn't even be covered until the end of the week.
Queen Rosalind peered across the distance of the causeway towards the horizon with the giddy enthusiasm of a young maid about to receive a precious, long anticipated, gift.
North Wiltshire farmers and hauliers fear plans to move the Chippenham Livestock Market to Cribbs Causeway would make travelling a nightmare.
He was all in hand when he led his men up over a rough stone causeway to a door in the bottom of a high battlemented wall and waited for somebody to open it. In The Time Of Light
I did not pass through the lane which led direct to Abbots 'House (for that old building stood solitary amidst its grounds a little apart from the spacious platform on which the society of the Hill was concentrated), but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gaslamps; the gayer shops still-unclosed, the tide of busy life only slowly ebbing from the still-animated street, on to a square, in which the four main thoroughfares of the city converged, and which formed the boundary of A Strange Story — Complete
The ‘Palms’ are connected by causeways to a Miami-like beachfront chock-full of mega-hotels, apartment high-rises and yacht marinas.
It takes at least 15 minutes of rough scrambling to cross the causeway, which is jagged and wet. Times, Sunday Times
He said they had not noticed any warning signs before going on to the causeway.
The causeway near the mill, crossing the creek, is a toll bridge, with tollbooth intact.
Proposals to construct a 12-mile causeway between the ports of Barrow and Heysham were this week submitted to Lancaster City and Barrow Borough Councils.
However, not to part uncivilly, and be as good as my word, I brought ben Nanse's bottle, and gave him a cawker at the shop counter; and, after taking a thimbleful to myself, to drink a good journey to him, I bade him take care of his feet, as the causeway was frozen, and saw the auld flunkie safely over the strand with The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
The ice floes from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence that swept through the Strait of Canso every year were now blocked on their southward journey, and so they stayed to fill Saint George's Bay on the Causeway's north side.
The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
Near to them is Lindisfarne or Holy Isle which can only be reached by way of a causeway at low tide.
The ceremonial centres included temples, pyramids, ball-courts, palaces, and plazas, usually linked by causeways or wide paved roads.
A narrow causeway links the islands. The Sun
The projects include an elevated expressway, several flyovers, underpasses and causeways.
Miami Beach, described as ‘the place where the sun spends the winter,’ is a narrow, seven-mile long strip separated from its mainland sister by Biscayne Bay but linked by causeways.
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It was bright and hot, the glorious, equable equatorial heat, and when we got out of the mangrove swamps through which the road is causewayed, there was fine tropical foliage, and the trees were festooned with a large, blue Thunbergia of great beauty. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Don't miss the walk across the causeway to the Île de Callot - or the low tide for your return.
I crunched on over carpets of broken mussel shells, passing a big rusted ship's anchor lying tines up, and clambered up from the causeway on to the slope of the Inner Head.
The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
Join this track following a causeway all the way across the reed beds of the Moss.
“Free and safe as a Whig bailie on the causeway of his own borough, or a canting Presbyterian minister in his own pulpit; and I came to tell you that you need not remain in hiding any longer.” The Bride of Lammermoor
Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road. Kesh & Loaning
But the causeway has been a boon to naturalists.
It opened not directly on the garden, but on a causewayed path, or passage, giving on the road on the one hand, and closed on the other by the tall willows and elders that bordered on the stream. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
Singapore is situated at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula to which it is connected by a causeway carrying a road and railway.
In 1879, a causeway was built to the island, sparing pilgrims and day trippers both the effort of trudging across the sands, and the danger of the fast and powerful local tides.
The long duration of the eclipse cycle would help link the causeway to those who had gone before. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
The causeway was engulfed in fire and the towers burned like matchsticks. Alexander the Great
It was a crannog: a grouping of round, reed-thatched huts raised on oak piles above the swampy ground and connected by a network of swaying rope-and-wood causeways. Dark Moon of Avalon
Froome has not put a pedal wrong, except perhaps a momentary wobble as he rounded the final bend on the causeway underneath the ancient abbey. Times, Sunday Times
Thus the visitor to Angkor Wat who walks the causeway to the main entrance and through the courtyards to the final main tower, which once contained a statue of Vishnu, is metaphorically travelling back to the first age of the creation of the universe. TO THE REMARKABLE TEMPLES – April 6
Looking out, tumblers in hand, we watched as the waves slid over the causeway, smoothing away our bootprints and the already fading tracks of the funeral cars.
Singapore is situated at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula to which it is connected by a causeway carrying a road and railway.
Churchill ordered the building of four massive causeways to block the channels between the islands around Scapa Flow, but oil leaking from the wreck has served as a constant reminder of the tragedy for more than 60 years.
It is the dead hour of the day; all the workers have gone painting, all the idlers strolling, in the forest or the plain; the winding causewayed street is solitary, and the inn deserted. The Wrecker
The Causeway farmer said since the new parlour was installed milk yields have increased by 180 gallons per cow and it is still rising.
The reason is the presence of umpteen causeways and bridges.
Umber started up the causeway again, at a brisker pace. End of Time
Beyond an employment project for cured leprosy patients, the road became a causeway across flooded land. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
Causeway Bay Animal Hospital , 25 - 27 Whitfield Road , Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
for," said he, "the callant will hae runnin 'about on the causeway and plainstanes o' Carlisle sufficient to drive a 'the shoon in the world aff his feet. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man, to know what life it was to lye all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knaps-cap, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.” — The Abbot
The OIC transportation and infrastructure committee meeting decided to give the lairage, which will be situated to the right of the causeway, between the marshalling area and the piled pier at Hatston, approval.
The then Government constructed few bridges and causeways to decongest the traffic in the city.
The causeway near the mill, crossing the creek, is a toll bridge, with tollbooth intact.
If he had read his sources with attention, he would know that the embanked circles containing rings of pits, which I mentioned as parallels to Stonehenge I, have nothing whatever to do with the hill-top enclosures ( "causewayed camps") which were until recently interpreted as cattle-pounds. Stonehenge
A causewayed ring ditch is a type of prehistoric monument.

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