How to Use ring road in a Sentence

ring road

noun
  • The 1,400-mile-long ring road has been ruined by decades of war and neglect.
    National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Access to business can be gained from the mall’s ring road.
    cleveland.com, 4 July 2019
  • The ring road that wraps around Kaua‘i has a 30-kilometer gap that is the Nāpali coast.
    Brendan Borrell, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The other two are in the middle of the property with one next to the interior ring road of the mall.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The school is located on Peshawar's ring road, on the southern outskirts of the city.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Cars that before would pass through the city to go other places are diverted to a ring road.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Traffic on the city’s central ring road, while lighter than usual, was still heavy.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The only way to get from one segment to another would be via a ring road that runs around the perimeter.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The drive along Cairo’s ring road is one sign of a paradoxical problem.
    The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Stop and see the horses when driving along Highway 1 (the ring road) between Reykjavik and Vik.
    Liz Dufour, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • Russian tanks stood near the city's ring road, the mayor said, adding that the subway stations were the safest places for residents.
    NBC News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Back on the ring road, the sodden gray clouds threatening all morning made good on their promise.
    Ellen Perlman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • China dismantled relics of the Qing empire to build a ring road around Beijing.
    Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Parts of Cairo’s ring road were shut down for several hours, forcing some travelers to spend the night in their cars.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The ring road will need upgrades to handle increased traffic.
    Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Also, parts of Cairo's ring road were shut down for several hours, forcing some travelers to spend the night in their cars.
    Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • This is the present condition at outer ring road which connects marathalli – silk board.
    Saritha Rai, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Iceland’s 800-mile-long ring road circles the entire country.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • It was supposed to include a ring road, but only a small portion of it, from Windsor to Manchester, was built.
    Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The towers are clustered around plazas on a network of winding streets and footpaths that is bound by Serdiuka Street to the west, the city ring road to the east, the Rodnychok Pond to the south and marshland to the north.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Paris just became the latest place to impose the city-wide speed limit of 30 kph, with the exception of some major thoroughfares such as the famed Champs-Élysées, and the ring road around the perimeter of the city.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The traffic filter plans spearheaded by Enright were aimed at encouraging drivers to use the ring road to get around the city rather than cut across it.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2023
  • The first time my dad rode his Vincent to the Ace, which was on a ring road in northwest London, an argument was taking place out front, where bikes were lined up in gleaming rows.
    Rachel Kushner, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Between the settlements and Bethlehem there is a settler ring road; and between that and Bethlehem there’s a wall.
    National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Along Highway One, the ring road connecting Afghanistan’s biggest cities, large holes from explosives, often only 100 yards apart, are a reminder of the lives lost over the years.
    WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • An extensive ring road around Afghanistan was funded by multiple grants and donors, totaling billions during the course of the war.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Near the ring road that surrounds the capital, trucks with rocket launchers parked in fields and released a fusillade toward Russian forces’ position to the northwest.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And thousands of free garage and surface parking spaces are available or in the works all around the complex, made possible when Cordish cemented a long-term lease with the mall for more acreage and moved a ring road around the property.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2018
  • The water, a slim current running along Beijing’s often-congested innermost ring road, may not look like an ideal spot for a dip.
    New York Times, 25 June 2022
  • Ironically, the ring road was constructed over the summer to relieve vehicle congestion at the school.
    Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017

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