Sentence examples for a stopover point for from inspiring English sources
During his ministry, St. Cyprian's became a stopover point for church members heading south in the desegregation fight.
A stopover point for longhorn cattle drives on the Chisholm Trail in the early 1870s, Fort Worth became a cattle-shipping boomtown (often called Cowtown) after the arrival in 1876 of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
A trend toward nonstop flights on routes that used to require connections has also hit Heathrow, which has long been a stopover point for travelers from the United States to Continental Europe, South Asia and the Middle East, said Sandy Rederer, an aviation expert at OAG Aviation, a Washington consulting firm.
As one of the west-central states of the United States, Nebraska was primarily a stopover point for those migrating to the rich trapping country to the north and west as well as to the settlement and mining frontiers of the mountain and Pacific regions during the first half of the 19th century.
Wedged between the sea and the snow-capped Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta peaks, the city may be Colombia's oldest, but it has always been seen as the grittier and more industrial counterpart to nearby Cartagena — at best, a stopover point for visitors looking to trek through Tayrona National Park or hike to the Lost City, a well-known archaeological site nearby.
A sliver of nature on a north-south flyway for migrating birds, the 16-year-old refuge has become a stopover point for endangered whooping cranes and a breeding site for threatened bald eagles.
The German dry dock there was not only a key base for German U-boats but a likely stopover point for the Nazis's latest and much-feared battleship, the Tirpitz, if she headed from Norway to the Atlantic to threaten allied military and civilian shipping.
Nauru is a favourite stopover point for migratory birds, and chickens have been introduced.
The ecologic health of Walker Lake is of great concern as the lake is a stopover point on the Pacific route for migratory birds from within and outside the United States.
Traffickers have used Central America as a stopover point since at least the 1970s.
During his brief term as mayor, Gallagher oversaw the town during a time when many prospectors headed to the Klondike Gold Rush saw Edmonton as a stopover point.
