Example sentences for: roads

How can you use “roads” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of Roman origin (it was a regional capital under Julius Caesar), the agricultural city of Beja (78 km/48 miles south of Évora) is at the hub of roads that lead to Lisbon, the Algarve, and across the Alentejo.

  • Oil money and federal largess--funds available either in full or at the most favorable matching rates for roads, military bases, parks, refuges, the Coast Guard, native affairs, and the full gamut of social-welfare benefits--allows the state to eschew both an income tax and a sales tax.

  • One mysterious factory was enclosed by two public roads and a rail line, little used by foreigners, on which the only scheduled train passed the required checkpoints in the dead of night.

  • Some counties rely on their health departments to solve rural renter complaints about sewage, roads, and vacant, vermin-infested homes, said William Peterson of the Iowa Association of Counties.

  • These sub-minimum-wage jobs--doing basic neglected work like repairing roads and bridges--would constitute the missing bottom rung on an economic ladder.


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