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How to use curbstone in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word curbstone? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Hartman retreated to the curbstone, but West followed him, his face like a thunder-cloud.
He traversed the gamut of the masonry trades from foundation to lintel, bridge abutment to gravestone, and from skyscraper to curbstone.
That was my mistake recently when I crammed my rear, left-side tire against the jagged curbstone in front of my apartment.
In any case deactivate the Antitipper device before driving over a curbstone or a step.
He had not been shot, it turned out, but he had injured his toes, having stubbed them against a curbstone.
The lowered covers of a table form deaf lateral walls, and curbstone end faces are closed by deaf inserts.
The curbstone of the laundrette fixes in its bluish shades a variation of grey that betrays the wear of time.
They have the same color as your curbstone providing a harmonic unit.
Antika paving stones give walkways and patios the allure of an ancient cobblestone courtyard, and can stand alone or be outlined by a beautifully sculpted curbstone.
Three little boys were sittong on a curbstone on First Avenue.
Gabriel often saw him on the streets, playing on the curbstone with other boys his age.
The Lord continuing in this vein for a while, Jobless waited patiently upon his curbstone, scratching his boils with a tail-light shard and paying heed.
Examples from Classical Literature
A soft carpet, overlain with brown linen, is spread from the curbstone into the hall.
See him genuflecting now, to kiss the curbstone and thank Allah that he is free.
The man on the curbstone is the arbiter of our destinies, and the standard man.
The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
I walked to the corner, and sat down on the curbstone, dead tired, but happy.
He sat down upon the curbstone and buried his face in his hands.
The only reminder of mortality was a doctor's brougham arrested in august solitude close to the curbstone.
An awning from the house door to the curbstone, and a policeman!
He went out to the curbstone and scanned the road for a passing carriage.
By then the cab had drawn up to the curbstone and was stopped.
In this instance a dray was backed up to the curbstone, with paper.
He returned the glance with a lightning-like look of diabolical fierceness, and, turning round, stood upon the curbstone and called a hansom.
Chihun thumped Moti Guj's bald head as a paver thumps a curbstone.
Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas.
As he drew near he thought how often he had seen it blazing with lights, its steps awninged and carpeted, and carriages waiting in double line to draw up at the curbstone.
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