Sentence examples for a distant road from inspiring English sources

For there is the time, the place, the black opportunity: the day, the hour, the slant of the light, the ice-cream van chiming from a distant road near the bypass.

When elephants want to make a decision, they "rumble," producing a low-pitched gurgling noise that sounds like a truck rolling down a distant road.

In a region where markets are distant, roads are poor and the prices for legal produce like yucca and plantains are low, the coca farmers "become slaves of the mafia," a Colombian congressman tells Feiling — the rural correlates of low-level street dealers in America who risk death and imprisonment to earn "roughly the federal minimum wage".

And on distant roads with only a few new homes and faded blue street signs from the '50s — on Narcissus Boulevard, on Prospect Avenue — drug dealers moved in.

However, it is not necessarily for each mobile node to grasp the congestion states of distant roads because they will change according to evacuees' movement.

Emissions within 80 km of the study area were directly calculated, and the exposure model also included a background term (proportional to exposures from the 22 counties just outside of the 2-county study area) to account for more distant roads (Beyea et al. 2006).

Here, the low drone of a truck along a distant two-lane state road was an intrusion that only a native was likely to notice.

We heard a distant tapping on the road, A deepening drumming; it stopped, went on again And at the corner changed to hollow thunder.

Water transport occupies a distant second position to road transport, with an average share of about 1.6% of Nigeria's gross domestic product.

Travel to the nearest health facility is often a distant ride over rough roads, if transport can be found and payment arranged.

Or the words might conjure an empty glen with a vast blue sky, a stately stag on a distant purple mountain, an open road on which to walk.