ring road

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ring road People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university. Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • All the recent headline Gmail attacks abuse Google’s legitimate infrastructure to either bypass password and two-factor authentication (2fA) security or mimic Google’s own employees to trick users into opening up their own accounts to attackers.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The researchers also touted several other medical advancements, including coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiac imaging and many new heart disease medications.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The parkway is a two-lane winding road that covers 469 miles through the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia and North Carolina.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
  • The parkway about 35 miles south of downtown Nashville in the city of Murfreesboro, a booming town home to Middle Tennessee State University, the largest undergraduate university in The Volunteer State.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 June 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
  • Independence Day parade at noon July 4 on Main Street, honoring the men and women who have made the country great.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • Crenshaw shot Linzy Motton, 65, of Cotton Plant around 6:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Rush Street, authorities said, then fled to Main Street, where the officer encountered him.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • And in 1956 the Federal-Aid Highway Act funded 41,000 miles of interstate—an asphalt backbone justified as civil defense infrastructure but experienced as a coast-to-coast permission slip for self-reinvention.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • The witnesses described seeing the suspect and victim's vehicles come to a stop in front of them, forcing them to stop on the interstate, as well, the probable cause statement says.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • In the Plowshare film, a crude animation illustrates a zipper of nuclear blasts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to excavate a sea-level channel up to two hundred feet wide and one thousand feet deep, an oceanic superhighway across Costa Rica or Nicaragua.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • The superhighway would move large quantities of electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar in remote locations, to urban and industrial centers with high energy demand.
    Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Officials from the Canton of Solothurn said the walker noticed the brick fragments and stones near the motorway bridge along the A1 motorway in Luterbach, according to a May 20 Facebook post.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • My week consists of going to and from dog parks via motorways and B-roads after working hours.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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