Example sentences for: roadway

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

  • Unrestrained ocean waves and salty sea spray have wrecked huge chunks of the Malecón, the sumptuous promenade and roadway that traces the edge of the sea.

  • Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...

  • Ignoring the bad writing, it is wrong to say that the hard shoulder is raised: in fact, it is often the roadway that is raised above the hard shoulder, which, besides, is not necessarily roughly surfaced (though it might be paved in asphalt alongside a macadam roadway).

  • The rectangular Ming Dynasty city wall of Xi’an is 141⁄2 km (almost 9 miles) around and so thick that two-way chariot traffic could travel the roadway on top.

  • Tourists normally enter the Forbidden City from the south, after a long walk along a cobbled roadway from the Gate of Heavenly Peace.


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