kerb

[ UK /kˈɜːb/ ]
[ US /ˈkɝb/ ]
NOUN
  1. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
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How To Use kerb In A Sentence

  • A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
  • 'The rate has plateaued, which is what particular people said in the past that it would do without kerbside.' This Is Guernsey
  • They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
  • There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there! The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
  • My best guess is if negotiations haven't got anywhere by the end of Eid, in other words towards the end of this week, then I think there will be a battle for Sirte, but not yet. ruled out the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi . The Guardian World News
  • All recycling will be collected from the kerbside, so there will be no excuse whatsoever for people who claim that recycling is too much effort.
  • Catalog database dbase2 (without specifying authentication, or specifying authentication as kerberos).
  • It was not until 1985 that the law penalized the client for kerb-crawling, even though for many years it had penalized prostitutes for soliciting in the street.
  • But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
  • If it resulted in the so-called checkerboard, that can't be optimal," Daniels said, adding that his preference is that the referendum be county by county, rather than township by township. Courierpress.com Stories
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