Wayside

That tradition has fallen by the wayside.

The mother told the girl that she shouldn't fall by the wayside.

He laid down by the wayside and took a nap under a tree.

It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.

The train pulled up at a small wayside station, and we all descended.

The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth.

Before I reported it here, five to twenty sentences went by the wayside!

After I started working full-time, a lot of my hobbies fell by the wayside.

Most of the students were unable to follow the professor, falling by the wayside only a short way into the lecture.

You're in danger of falling by the wayside.