How to Use bicycle in a Sentence

bicycle

1 of 2 noun
Definition of bicyclenext
Synonyms for bicyclenext
  • The trail is also one of the few routes within the park where bicycles are allowed.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
  • By Christmas, both girls had a bicycle and a pair of roller skates.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Elaine Herzberg, 49, was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe on the night of the incident.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • And having a bicycle was like having a Cadillac in the United States at the time.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Across the street, at El Del Frente, the walls were washed white with hip stencils of bicycles and its rooftop bar was strung with lights.
    — Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Dozens of bicycles, the primary means of getting around here, lie charred on the ground.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Police believe the killer knocked Brasso off her bicycle, stabbed her and dragged her off the trail.
    — CBS News, 8 June 2023
  • All 50 rooms are stocked with hula hoops and jump ropes, and the lobby has board games, lawn games, and cruiser bicycles for guests to use.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 May 2023
  • Bike trailers hook right up to the back of the bicycle and most have one or two seats with safety harnesses for kids.
    — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The boy, who doesn’t so much as flinch when the weapons not far from their town in northeast Ukraine shoot off more rounds, pouts and pedals away on his bicycle.
    — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • On the morning of the attack, a grandson of Mr. Beckwith’s had been hit by a car while riding his bicycle to school.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Supply chains have healed enough to tame prices for all sorts of goods, from electronics to bicycles.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The injured are brought in by volunteers, on bicycles or on foot.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Dan Ridenour: Barry asked them at that time if the bike was there, to go check on her … her bicycle is not here.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • The parking will be in a five-level garage that’s part of the building, along with 45 racks and five storage lockers for bicycles.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Later that evening, a sheriff’s deputy found her purple bicycle in a cornfield just a half mile away from the home.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One door led to a maintenance garage—five bicycle tires, four chainsaws, three stray cats, and two oil drums.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The firm is calling for consumers to stop using the bicycles and contact woom Bikes USA for a free repair kit.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • But lugging a bicycle around the country–or the world–is a daunting proposition.
    — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The bench-type rear seat can be folded upward to store bulky items such as electric scooters and bicycles.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
  • City officials want to build bicycle paths along the river in the Valley before the 2028 Summer Olympics.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Video footage from Starbucks and other businesses in the area showed the teen was not the person who took the bicycle, according to the complaint.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 17 June 2023
  • In those years, the advent of the smartphone and the mass adoption of social media have turned those bicycles into runaway trains.
    — Royce Branning, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Theft: Lark Street A male resident called the police at 9:52 p.m. on Sept. 1 to report two bicycles were stolen from his garage at some point during the day.
    — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Berry was shot early Tuesday while riding his bicycle in the 7000 block of First Avenue South.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • On a side street, Carter struck up a conversation with a cheerful woman on a bicycle and urged Gandhi to talk to her.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Not that long ago, Beijing was still a city of bicycles; today, it’s plagued by air pollution, much of it produced by cars.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
  • One of those was Shawn Gray, a 48-year-old parolee who was hit by a driver and killed in August while riding a bicycle near an Interstate 25 on-ramp.
    — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The city will also make safety improvements closer to the Highway 4 exit, with striping to make the bicycle lanes continuous and the elimination of some street parking in the area, the mayor said.
    — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Black-and-white photographs — a tree with a string tied around it, a single lightbulb, a bicycle seat — provide stunning contrast as everyday life, much of it dusty and summertime hot, brushes up against gliding and ghostly female forms.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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bicycle

2 of 2 verb
  • Amir and Lisa Aziz, who live two blocks from the site, bicycled by to check out the scene.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • The city of Davis — where legend has it there are more bikes than cars — has been named the safest bicycling city in the country.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 3 July 2018
  • The aim is to find walking and bicycling improvements on Main and Barre streets.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This, from a company whose founder bicycled back and forth across the snowy country with his first batch of knives.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
  • People without a parking pass who want to come, should plan to walk, bicycle or be dropped off at the park.
    — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2021
  • The ride ended up being a total of 88 miles, and was mapped using the bicycling app Strava.
    — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The name will need to be simple, have an emphasis on bicycling and not be in use elsewhere.
    — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
  • Gregory used to bicycle to work and back, but was struck by a vehicle in 2001.
    — Nathan Percy, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2017
  • From the activities (bicycling to a cenote!) to the food (one of their restaurants serves only food cooked over an open flame!), the place is full of healthyish vibes.
    — The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • That title belongs to the Trekker GT e-bicycle the company released in the summer of 2020.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2022
  • While bicycling near San Diego State University that fall, he was hit by a car.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2018
  • And the Capitol, where my son and I would bicycle along the marble terraces overlooking the Mall, remained a prime target.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Mayfield has urged passage of her bill following the death Wednesday of a man in Boynton Beach who was hit by one of the new trains while bicycling across the tracks.
    — Jim Turner, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Patti was an avid hiker and loved bicycling during the warmer months with Donnie.
    — courant.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Dawn Ponsi’s son, Robert, was stabbed to death while bicycling home in January 2016.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2018
  • People who try to bicycle through the Arts and Design District or loiter in Carmel's public garages could soon face fines.
    — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2020
  • This study involved only healthy young men and bicycling.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And starting in spring, customers will be able to buy new and used bikes and bicycling accessories and supplies, such as lights, brake pads and helmets.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
  • This week's Chicagoan is Jana Kinsman, 31, the bicycling beekeeper.
    — Anne Ford, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017
  • When Pugh attended the kickoff last week for a group bicycling event starting at Druid Hill Park, the tension was pronounced.
    — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2017
  • And while bicycling to work still needs work, recreational and tourist biking appears to be doing just fine.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Look out for others: Pedestrians and people bicycling don’t have 4,000 pounds of metal to protect them in a crash.
    — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Julie Craven used to bicycle nearly four miles across Cambridge to her job as a middle school principal.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • A few weeks after the product launch, MIPS hit back in bicycling trade publications and on its own website.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Yet the voices are better than the music, especially in the case of Bradley Greenwald as Gordon’s bicycling frog of a nemesis.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The Tammany Trace is a 31-mile hiking and bicycling trail between downtown Covington and Slidell.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The sound of class bells, the smell of the cafeteria, the boring posture of hunching over a desk, were all ditched in a glorious rush of running, bicycling, swimming, or lying on your back in the grass.
    — Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2019
  • This is marketed as more of bicycling headlight than a headlamp.
    — Andrew Northshield, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
  • LawnStarter also recently ranked Portland the third overall best city for bicycling in general.
    — oregonlive, 6 June 2023
  • Guests can also participate in a number of activities at Twin Farms, from bicycling and hiking to ice skating and snowshoeing.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 25 May 2023

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