ring road

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ring road Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena. James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024 Guo and Cui have lived in Beijing all their lives and have barely travelled outside of the second ring road, a rectangular beltway built in the 1980s around central Beijing, with an area roughly equivalent to the size of the old city. Qiang Xiaoji, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2015 Judge Alexander Milne has also barred the three Just Stop Oil activists from taking part in any protest action within the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024 The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road. Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • There’s no way to steal, bypass, copy or leak a passkey.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Gather Your Tools Heavy-duty leather gloves or rose gauntlets, sharp bypass pruners, a pair of loppers, a rake, and a bucket or wheelbarrow for debris will make speedy work of pruning Knock Out roses.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Southbound lanes of the parkway were shut down between Maryland Route 97 and Powder Hill Road following the crash and were fully reopened around 9:30 a.m. Friday.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
  • By the numbers: About 50,000 drivers use the parkway on an average day.
    Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.
    The Economist, The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
    Fox News, Fox News, 16 July 2018
Noun
  • Over time, her responsibilities grew: in 2001, she was asked to oversee AMLO’s marquee project, a four-hundred-million-dollar renovation of Mexico City’s beltway.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The incident took place on March 12 in the parking lot of the DMV on North Main Street.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Stephen Mauk, public information officer with the Fayetteville Police Department, said a vehicle struck a pedestrian on North College Avenue between Main Street and Zion Road about 12:28 a.m. Friday.
    Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • He was arrested a short time later driving on a nearby interstate.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Most Popular Large contaminated CT industrial site visible from interstate wins $5.4M boost for redevelopment Could UConn women’s basketball repeat as NCAA champion?
    Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The power delivery is incredible, and this is particularly surprising when accelerating from around 50mph on a motorway.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country.
    Fola Aina, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2021

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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