causeway
a raised road or path, as across low or wet ground.
a highway or paved way.
to pave (a road or street) with cobblestones or pebbles.
to provide with a causeway.
Origin of causeway
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How to use causeway in a sentence
causeway Bay has rotating illustrations inspired by clashes with the police.
By visiting Admiralty or causeway Bay or Mong Kok, they see that it's not a dirty affair.
Chinese Tourists Are Taking Hong Kong Protest Selfies | Brendon Hong | October 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome subway exits in causeway Bay, a major shopping district, were barricaded.
But soon, he must have walked that mile along the causeway, over the water back to Miami.
Advocates Reached Out to Ronald Poppo Before He Was Face-Eating Victim | Aram Roston | June 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhoever did what Luka Magnotta is accused of doing makes the causeway Cannibal look like a pussycat.
Canada’s 'Cannibal Killer:' Early Reports Warned About Luka Magnotta | Winston Ross | June 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He was shot by a man of the 32d, and his body formed the lowermost layer of a causeway of corpses that soon choked the ditch.
The Red Year | Louis TracyHe took them across the morass, about a mile wide, over a causeway of branches, which the rear demolished as they passed.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonSouth of the whole ran the military way—a regular causeway about 20 feet wide.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanIt is on the edge of the mangrove swamp, and is reached by a sort of causeway of turf.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonHe seemed to muse a while, holding his lip in his hand, and looking now at me and now upon the causeway of the street.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for causeway
/ (ˈkɔːzˌweɪ) /
a raised path or road crossing water, marshland, sand, etc
a paved footpath
a road surfaced with setts
Origin of causeway
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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