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词汇 example_english_grass-verge
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grass verge

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meanings of grassand verge


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grass
noun
uk /ɡrɑːs/ us /ɡræs/
a low, green plant that grows naturally over a lot of the earth's surface, having groups of very thin leaves that grow close together in ...
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verge
noun[C]
uk /vɜːdʒ/ us /vɝːdʒ/
the edge or border ...
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Examples of grass verge


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I talk to him, by the grassverge and the trees.
Private enterprise can run school bus services, run day nurseries, maintain street lighting, erect bus shelters, organise grassverge cutting and maintain street signs.
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There is a narrow grassverge on the other side of the road, but that can scarcely be called a footpath.
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We were both knocked unconscious, the car landing up on the opposite grassverge against a tree.
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It does not seem to me that one has a right to drive one's vehicle along the grassverge.
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It absorbs twelve acres to the mile, providing two 25-foot concrete roads separated by a grassverge.
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On one side there is a wide footpath and on the other side a wide grassverge.
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My information is that the grassverge on which the pole was erected is part of the public highway.
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This will be done by reducing the grassverge outside the hard shoulder, on either side of the road, from 10 ft.
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All it did was to put a little grassverge between the road and the houses; that is all.
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His only mode of escape was to drive on to the grassverge just in time to prevent a very serious collision.
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Could not there be a grassverge for horses?
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The grassverge became a sorting ground for old car bodies, fridges, and bits of metal.
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It says that, if there is no convenient grassverge, that is not most people's idea of improved safety.
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In those days one always found that motorists would pull up and take great care when passing riders on the grassverge.
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Quite recently, without any communication to the inhabitants, the road authority has taken away that grassverge.
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If one begins driving a vehicle over the grassverge one very soon finds that it is strongly objected to by the local authority or the highway authority.
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Round that curve till recently there was a grassverge, with a ditch in it.
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The children said that it would be helpful if there were continuous pavement that did not end in a grassverge or hedge because they could then walk to school.
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It has a large grassverge.
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