ring road

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ring road In addition to passing through different parts of the city, the route led them through suburban regions within London's M25 ring road. New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025 The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025 Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand. ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney. Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • Use the bypass pruning shears, which also have a handy safety locking mechanism that protects your hands from the blades when not in use, to deadhead plants accordingly.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate.
    Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nassau County police first received a description of the person who was fatally struck on the parkway and then received a call from Christopher's school roughly 15 minutes later about a missing boy, detective Tracey Cabey tells PEOPLE.
    Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Heuermann killed seven women over a period of at least two decades, dumping most of their remains on a remote parkway near Long Island's Gilgo Beach.
    Michael Ruiz , Jennifer Johnson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 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
  • Participants in the Peoples Convoy of truckers protesting pandemic restrictions drive the beltway around Washington near Cabin John, Maryland, on March 6, 2022.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Currently, the city rules limit height on the island to eight stories with the exception of buildings along North Main Street.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The convergence of institutional support and political visibility could assist ABTC in attracting investment from both Wall Street and Main Street.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Routh allegedly fled after the agent fired at him, and was later arrested after being stopped on a nearby interstate.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Originally built in 1959, the bridge connects Gardner over I-35 and it’s used as the city’s southern access point to the interstate, Edgerton and nearby warehouses, according to Johnson County Post Reporting.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don't let your investment in a state-of-the-art superhighway be compromised by an inability to see the traffic.
    Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The documentary, executive produced by Susan Chun, gives a rare look at how Ecuador became a narco superhighway.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The northern part of the island was at a standstill, schools closed, traffic snailing down the motorway.
    Ariel Saramandi, The Dial, 29 July 2025
  • Police found Alia's head and the axe in a bag in her car, which Jesse R. was driving when arrested on the A4 motorway, according to the NL Times news site.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring%20road. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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