Sentence examples for abandoned roadside from inspiring English sources

Collect all the phony little buildings from abandoned roadside attractions like Storyland in one place.

Instead, I end up reading street signs and atlases, menus in greasy diners, or historical markers at strange, abandoned roadside attractions where I stop to stretch my legs.

Instead Milner was present only as a shade of beige, a makeweight in England's projected tactical expansion, expected simply to disappear quietly into necessary obsolescence like an abandoned roadside sofa bed.

"Saving Africa's Witch Children" follows Gary Foxcroft, founder of the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, as he travels the rural state of Akwa Ibom, rescuing children abused during horrific "exorcisms" — splashed with acid, buried alive, dipped in fire — or abandoned roadside, cast out of their villages because some itinerant preacher called them possessed.

As a result, some older cows have been found abandoned by roadsides, and about 58,000 elderly dairy cows are awaiting slaughter.

Riders' founders Andrea and Barry Coleman conceived their venture after traveling in Africa and witnessing hundreds upon hundreds of broken-down vehicles abandoned on roadsides or stacked behind buildings, most of them left to rust for want of a simple part or an oil change.

"The reprisal and counterinsurgency tactics of the C.A.R. security forces have affected the lives of over one million people," the report said, "and have forced an estimated 212,000 civilians to abandon their roadside homes and live deep inside the bush, too fearful to return to their burned villages in case of repeat attack".

Cars were abandoned on the roadside.

The men escape from prison, but only to pass through a series of no less confining spaces: an abandoned mine, a roadside cafe where they briefly hold the patrons hostage, a crowded passenger train chugging through the California night.

Without work, abandoned on a roadside, she wanders into a bar that, unbeknownst to her, is being robbed (the bartender is tied up and out of sight), then gets a ride from a man who turns out to be the robber; she becomes his unintended but then willing accomplice in his next criminal scheme, as well as his lover.

The show's cars had to be abandoned by the roadside and the crew escorted to the airport after being pelted with stones.