road

Example Sentences

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“I’m still trying to get a little further along the road to perfection, or salvation,” Rollins said in a 2011 Times profile.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

“The estate bears the name Shoemaker originally gave his villa, ‘Cedar Cliff’—a designation that eventually defined the very road on which it stands.”

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

In court in 2023, Price admitted that he'd used the gravel from the river to build a road and horse exercise yard at his home.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Ferrari has estimated that 90% of the vehicles it has ever made are still on the road and works on the principle that Ferraris are “forever.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Though Aunt Fanny Hamline outweighed his horse, with all eight of us and Tansy pushing the wagon and pulling on the rope and the horse straining and pawing the road, we showed some progress.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck