pedestrianin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
pedestrian as in: a pedestrian idea
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It is another pedestrian movie plot.pedestrian = lacking imagination
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It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time. (source)pedestrian = walking
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The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. (source)
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Pedestrian foot traffic was taking up one whole lane of the highway as we approached Washington, and I was quietly stumbling along with everyone else.† (source)
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Somehow my aunt and uncle's children ended up with more pedestrian gifts than I had come to expect as a child.† (source)
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Bureaucratic daylight: pedestrian morning blaring, bright with threat.† (source)
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I was an innocent pedestrian.† (source)
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This Son is a god who walked, a pedestrian god—and in a hot place, at that—with a stride like any human stride, the sandal reaching just above the rocks along the way; and when He splurged on transportation, it was a regular donkey.† (source)
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I remembered how on Sundays when the Bajaj chugged us along pedestrian-packed streets, he imagined strange lewd hands grabbing at me and pinching.† (source)
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Crouching in the pedestrian entrance to the garage, I point at the building across the street glowing orange in the firelight.† (source)
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He wondered as he reached them if the gates would still let him walk through them, or if he would have to go back into the chapel to get a key, but when he got to the entrance he found the small pedestrian gate was unlocked and wide open, as if it was waiting for him, as if the graveyard itself was bidding him good-bye.† (source)
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The one with the mustache opens the small pedestrian gate for us and stands back, well out of the way, and we pass through.† (source)
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Neither did traffic signals, pedestrian pavements, or canals, which he twice jumped without bothering to find a bridge.† (source)
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Down the concrete steps at the station, right past the newspaper kiosk into Roseberry Avenue, half a block to the end of the T-junction, to the right the archway leading to a dank pedestrian underpass beneath the track, and to the left Blenheim Road, narrow and tree-lined, flanked with its handsome Victorian terraces.† (source)
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It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer.† (source)
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A pedestrian is a peculiar sight in L.A., considerably more peculiar than a man with swords.† (source)
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