on/by/at the roadside• Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside.• Children came out to play see-saw with an old plank they had found at the roadside.• Rev Ian Paisleyat the roadside where he answered a call of nature.• A lorrysimilar to theirs was parkedby the roadside and on the site there was feverish activity.• I had a vision of the little green car waiting quietly at the roadside.• I came across Gandhi in the early morning sitting by the roadsideeating a regulationarmybiscuit.• Most of the children were treatedby the roadside for cuts and bruises some of them were in shock.• And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them.
—roadsideadjectiveadj
a roadside snack bar
路边小吃店
Examples from the Corpus
roadside• Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair, London, in May 1990 after a roadsidebreathtestprovedpositive.• Five young people died when Goochs car ploughed into a roadsidebench.• Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadsideditch.• They grow along the roadside and keep their meek little faces white and pure in the midst of the dust..• Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.• After suffering my attentions at the roadside, Amin had summarily dismissed him.• Stopping and searchingvehicles at the roadside.• A lorrysimilar to theirs was parked by the roadside and on the site there was feverish activity.