roads

Example Sentences

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Officers set up cordons on surrounding roads to prevent people from heading to the coast.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The driverless trucks, which began runs in June 2025, achieved 99% on-time arrival performance and have had no accidents on public roads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

For decades, the sound blended into the city's background noise, as familiar and unremarkable as the traffic on the roads.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

After Route 66 was decommissioned as a highway in 1985, about 85% of the old route remained in use, often as small-town thoroughfares, country highways and frontage roads alongside Interstate 40.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The Three Lions Inn was located in the Madeleine neighborhood of Paris where two roads intersected at sharp angles, making the building wedge-shaped like a four-story slice of cake.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti