area

Example Sentences

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On Friday an area of snow showers will move across Northern Ireland, Wales, southern areas of North-West England, the Midlands and into southern England.

From BBC

The regulations require wide, flat roads with only short dead-end offshoots to ensure easy evacuation for residents and easy access for fire crews in fire-prone areas.

From Los Angeles Times

Rainfall totals are expected to range from about three-quarters of an inch to 2.5 inches in coastal and valley areas, with 2 to 5.5 inches possible in foothill and mountain communities.

From Los Angeles Times

As the wildfires raged into Wednesday, Jan. 8, scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out and all water storage tanks in the area quickly “went dry.”

From Los Angeles Times

The baby galaxies spied by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Greater Tokyo area are hyperobjects too — we can picture them but can barely wrap our heads around them.

From Salon