Sentence examples for approach the main from inspiring English sources

Visitors are searched repeatedly as they approach the main gate.

D. K. P. Dassanayake, a navy spokesman, said about 20 to 25 boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had tried to approach the main northern Kankasanturai Harbor in the Jaffna Peninsula when they were detected.

As you approach the main entrance, where the aluminum gives way to glass, you can see a huge, two-story lobby crossed by a concrete bridge, with an acre and a half of lagoon on the other side.

When we approach the main banks for basic details of their internship programme, such as the number of interns and the start dates, some reply, but the reticence of others is noticeable.

That is clear the moment you approach the main entrance's widened steps on Central Park West and see a bronze, life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln standing in casual welcome.

Yet as you approach the main entrance along Second Street, as most visitors will, the cantilever reads as an extension of a walkway bridge that runs from the theater complex to a parking structure on the other side, an echo of the skywalks found elsewhere in downtown Minneapolis.

As noon approached, the main street in the Suweileh neighborhood, an Islamist stronghold, was lined with nine armored personnel carriers with helmeted riot police.

The blast occurred as the boat carrying Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who took power after a contested election in the island nation in 2013, approached the main jetty of the capital Malé.

As you approached the main stage the crowd seemed smaller and smaller until you realised that – with barely 10 minutes before showtime – it was quite possible to walk all the way up to the front barriers.

The helicopter, a hulking MI-26 transport aircraft, crashed in a minefield as it approached the main Russian base in Chechnya, at Khankala, just east of the republic's capital, Grozny.

As we approached the main road, government soldiers stood by the roadside.