ring road

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of ring road 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 In July, Judge Hehir sentenced a group of Just Stop Oil activists to four- and five-year sentences over a campaign to disrupt traffic on the M25, the major ring road in London. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ring road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ring road
Noun
  • The actor has undergone a quadruple heart bypass and has diabetes, according to his lawyer.
    John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This unwanted disclosure breached the privacy that judicial bypass is meant to protect.
    Kate Coleman-Minahan, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Applications for free Elgin parkway trees due April 15 Elgin homeowners who want a free tree planted on their property’s parkway this spring should apply to the city by Tuesday, April 15.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The Natural Resources Committee has pledged to use the fundraiser money toward bolstering the city’s parkway tree canopy.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 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
  • Some major beltway business groups cheered Zeldin's announcement.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sunday, March 23 Car Show: 3 to 5 p.m. winter, Albertsons parking lot, 1400 block of Main Street.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • South Main Street was closed down in both directions from Abbe Road to Scantic Road as the Metro Traffic Reconstruction Unit responded to the scene to conduct the ongoing investigation, police said.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Bentley Road bridge is one component of a $540 million overhaul of the intersecting interstates, an undertaking designed to accommodate population swells on Fort Worth’s western outskirts.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2025
  • As of Tuesday morning, crews spread 1.8 million gallons of brine on hundreds of miles of interstates, highways and secondary roads, Stein said.
    Joe Marusak and, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In January 2024, the state completed the $1.6 billion Wekiva Parkway, an elevated superhighway designed to protect wildlife and limit the sprawl of residential subdivisions.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But Pike — like many others here — knows that the thousands of dogs roaming freely between the desert landscape and people's homes serve as a superhighway for ticks.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • To be built close to junction 10 of the M1 motorway for easy access by car, it was intended to have a removable grass pitch, which would have made Luton the first club to use such technology.
    Tom Burrows, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The interview started with a second apology from the man who was late due to a crash on the motorway.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025

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

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