wayside

Preposition: as

• result: Many large construction schemes had fallen to the wayside as a result of diverse policy changes made by successive Governments.

Preposition: at

• time: We fall by the wayside at times because we are not perfect in our present state of human consciousness.

Converse of subject

• fall: Why have they fallen by the wayside on the modern internet?
• leave: The longer it takes to spread, the greater the number of children who will get left by the wayside.
• go: Like we mortal humans, many of these cars have gone by the wayside, whilst others have survived.
• drop: Social and environmental rights and sustainability considerations must not be dropped by the wayside during efforts to reach economic goals.
• slip: United have slipped by the wayside, fallen behind, dare we say it, become third rate.
• cast: Of these three, one can definitely be cast by the wayside and at least one other is of dubious value.

Modifies a noun

• shrine: He converted the church porch into a wayside shrine where people could write their requests for prayers in a book.
• inn: Happily we reached a wayside inn, The Mad Axeman, some miles on.
• chapel: Holy Sepulcher was not built as a parish church, but as a wayside chapel, or oratory.
• cross: A wayside cross is located at the junction of Potter Lane.
• cottage: Kings Langley Common, with its wayside cottages, still survives within the settlement.
• flower: I think of a grief that would not fit in wayside flowers, a box in the Evening Post.

Preposition: in

• year: As boss politicians fell by the wayside in the post-war years, the old-fashioned Daley machine lived on.