rest stop

Example Sentences

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“This 30 cents within the night, I’m just a little concerned,” Tun said while taking a break at a rest stop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

I wasn’t looking for good times or a rest stop, though, when I pulled into a Walmart minutes away from the border around 5 p.m. after leaving the mining town of Clifton that morning.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

But in recent months, I have noticed that what appeared to be peak Daily Me was perhaps just a rest stop on the way to the actual summit of Me Mountain.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2024

Not all countries mandate regular rest stops for long journeys but those that do often mandate rest stop times that are too short to allow meaningful recovery.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

Three-quarters of the way to Camp One, Hall remarked at a rest stop that the Icefall was in better shape than he’d ever seen it: “The route’s a bloody freeway this season.”

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer