Sentence examples for approaching the town from inspiring English sources

Three years ago, a lava flow was approaching the town of Pahoa, causing concern that the area could be cut off from the island.

"One day, as we were approaching the town," he recalls, "I saw the pale sky lit up by fires and blackened by smoke.

Approaching the town of Grein, dominated by its musty-yellow, Hapsburg castle, we crossed the swift-flowing river on a tiny, wooden ferry designed exclusively for cyclists.

Nigerian security forces were aware that an armed convoy of Boko Haram militants was approaching the town of Chibok almost four hours before the extremists kidnapped 300 girls from a school in the town, Amnesty International said on Friday.

When approaching the town board for permission to expand a restaurant or install speed bumps, they shouldn't have to bow their heads in prayer.But as Justice Samuel Alito notes in his concurrence, Justice Kagan's appeal to equality of citizenship proves too much.

In the weeks leading up to the recent offensive in Marja, military officials said, several of the 32 remaining U-2s found nearly 150 possible mines in roads and helicopter landing areas, enabling the Marines to blow them up before approaching the town.

Since he was fluent in German, he frequently traveled with higher ranking officers to speak to the citizens prior to troops approaching the towns in the Rhineland.

The train approached the town of Ashford, the Eurostar's first station in Britain.

Hours later, still in the dark, we approached the town of Mary.

"Someone came to me and suggested we approach the town about the Greens Farms School," she said.

Surprisingly, as I approached the town, I emerged into bright sunshine.