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
  • This is especially true given increasing reports of two-factor authentication (2FA) bypasses that are increasingly rendering basics forms of 2FA redundant.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • No cause of death has been given, though an official Facebook page for Derringer and his wife had detailed several health issues in recent months, including ankle bypass surgery (which creates a new pathway for blood to get around a blocked artery).
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Kimberly Warren, a project manager for Meridian Parks and Recreation, also noted a desire to see additional plans for pathways, including a parkway along Five Mile Creek.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 3 June 2025
  • The Natchez Trace Parkway is a scenic parkway and cycling route that extends 444 miles to Nashville and includes historic markers, lush forests and rolling hills.
    Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 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
  • Located at 95 Main Street, the generously sized 2185-square-foot store isn’t so much about shoes or art, but rather about storytelling.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Having grown up in a small rural community in Sycamore, Ill., where the dentist’s office was literally on Main Street, Rucks grew up understanding the power of dentistry.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • House Enrolled Act 1461, authored by state Rep. Jim Pressel, R-Rolling Prairie, would allow the state to charge tolls on all Indiana interstate highways, including Interstate 80/94 and I-65.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
  • Deputy Ryan Keach located the zebra near the interstate and shut down one lane of traffic for travelers’ safety on May 31, the sheriff's office told Fox News Digital.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Or rivers like the Skykomish that flow into the Puget Sound, which used to be salmon superhighways but are now closed to sportfishing some years due to abysmal returns.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
  • The nerve is like a superhighway, connecting the brain to other organs such as the heart, lungs, and digestive system.
    Paul McClure May 22, New Atlas, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The infrastructure is reasonable, but much of the route takes you alongside motorways.
    Craig Martin, Outside Online, 8 May 2025
  • But driving 200 miles on motorways, backroads, and through towns and cities, saw 2.7mi/kWh at best, and this was during warmer weather.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.

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