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Example sentences for: roadway
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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.