rest area

Example Sentences

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She had fallen asleep in a seminar room after a 36-hour shift last Thursday, as there was no designated rest area for her to sleep in.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

My brother desperately needed a rest area, but we were nowhere near one.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

A car traveling on I-70 when the crash happened was damaged, with the driver making it to a rest area farther down the road.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2023

About two hours into the trip, I stopped to charge at a rest area north of Montreal that had a shiny bank of blue-and-white Electric Circuit fast chargers.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

So here we were, just a few hours into our trip out to Lewiston, Idaho, and we were safely stopped in a rest area.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech