Sentence examples for a shorter route from inspiring English sources

In 1977, however, RIDOT officially abandoned plans for an extension north to Bellingham, Massachusetts and I-495, instead opting for a shorter route that would extend the freeway north to Route 114 (Diamond Hill Road) in northern Woonsocket.

In 1492 Columbus set out to find a shorter route to the silks and spices of India and discovered the New World.

The tents, our luggage, and food and drink supplies were transported on a team of eight mules along a shorter route.

The last of those ships crossing Lake Ontario from Rochester traveled a shorter route, to Cobourg, Ontario, before ending service in 1950.

A shorter route begins with a 55-foot-tall platform leading to a 50-foot gap, and the 30-foot quarterpipe.

After eating, they headed back toward the church on a shorter route, which (unknown to them) passed through a tough, white neighborhood.

Employed by the Virginia Company of London, Argall was commissioned in 1609 to discover a shorter route to Virginia and to fish for sturgeon.

In these, delta out-building is thought to be ended by a switch in the locus of deposition when the river finds a shorter route to the sea.

Several times against Deion Sanders, Johnson simply outmuscled the 6-1 cornerband and was open in the middle, only to see the pass go to another receiver running a shorter route.

This is a shorter route than coming down through Turkey, but having American warplanes barreling out of Israeli airspace for attacks on Iraq would almost certainly inflame tensions in the Arab world, a senior Navy official said.

If you have a wide, empty freeway, cars will ignore it in favour of a one-lane dirt road, just because it's a shorter route to their destination – even if it's jammed with traffic.