BUS in a Sentence

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For BUS, below is one of 81 sentences:
After all you only lived one life, and if you missed the bus, you were just left on the pavement, along with the rest of the failures.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUS
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bus
 n.  a large motor vehicle with seats for many people
 v.  move dishes to and from tables in a restaurant as a job
Classic Sentence:
1  The motor bike, the motor bus, and the movies--when Mr. Streatfield called his roll call, he laid the blame on them.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
2  It seemed as if most of the 'really good' men just missed the bus.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  After all you only lived one life, and if you missed the bus, you were just left on the pavement, along with the rest of the failures.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  He and she had caught the bus all right, so they might as well ride on top for a bit, and show it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  I'm sure sometimes the bus'll be full of young fellows in evening suits, collier lads, off to the Pally: let alone those that have gone with their girls in motors or on motor-bikes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  I came round as quickly as the Bayswater bus would bring me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
7  They walked to the bus when the rain stopped.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
8  You talk about me as if I were a motor bus.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  So you are a motor bus: all bounce and go, and no consideration for anyone.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  Because if you are, I'll take a bus.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
11  Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  The pupils lined up to board the school bus.
17  We had to sprint to catch the bus.
18  I had to run to catch the bus.
19  We live ten minutes from the city centre by bus.
20  I overheard a very funny conversation on the bus this morning.
21  As the bus turned the corner, it collided with a van.
22  They plan to situate the bus stop at the corner of the road.
23  The bus service has been cut to the bone.
24  While I was waiting at the bus stop, three buses went by in the opposite direction.
25  It's easy in this city to get round by bus.
26  Sightseeing is best done either by tour bus or by bicycles.
27  I don't know where I left my book -- either at school or on the bus.
28  You can get there by train or bus - either way/in either case it'll take an hour.
29  The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.
30  He started to explain, but she cut him short, saying she had to catch a bus.