AVENUE's Sentences and Contexts

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 Sentences of avenue
Definition:
n. way or opening for entrance or exit place; passage by which a place may be reached; broad street
n. a method or means by which something may be accomplished
Example:
The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile.
Authorities, however, are concerned that anonymous transactions conducted online are providing an avenue for illicit and criminal activities.
Sentence in Classic:
And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce Context
They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
The avenue ran through a noble park, between lines of ancient elms, and ended in a low, widespread house, pillared in front after the fashion of Palladio.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen Context
Twenty years before, when Dolly was a child, the lodge had been roomy and comfortable, though, like all lodges, it stood sideways to the entrance avenue, and faced the south.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy Context
When the party had broken up, Stepan Arkadyevitch walked a long while about the avenue with Veslovsky; their voices could be heard singing one of the new songs.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy Context
He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy Context
He reminded her of their first encounter in the Otradnoe avenue, and how she had been unable to sleep that moonlight night, and told her how he had involuntarily overheard her.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo Tolstoy Context
He entered through the gates with their stone pillars and drove up the avenue leading to the house as if he were entering an enchanted, sleeping castle.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy Context
On the tenth of August the regiment Prince Andrew commanded was marching along the highroad past the avenue leading to Bald Hills.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo Tolstoy Context
Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught the flash of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approaching.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton Context