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
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