Sentence examples for as a stopping from inspiring English sources

During the Mormon period the town flourished as a stopping place for west-bound gold seekers.

Luxury rentals become important as a stopping place for many people, Ms. Striegl added.

Hundreds of these sea lions use a rocky beach near Big Sur as a stopping point on the trip north.

Long derided as a stopping place between Washington and New York, Philadelphia is coming into its own.

It grew ahead as a stopping off point on Route 66, but the building of a by-pass in 1979 again drained the town of visitors.

An airstrip, built on West Island in 1945, was used until 1967 as a stopping place on flights between Perth, Austl., and Johannesburg, S.Af.

The large grassy area in the centre of town is frequently used as a stopping place for itinerant Aboriginal people who come to Broome from surrounding communities.

For a guy of my height, an old truck's bench seat makes a perfect bed, and I had stumbled upon a rural campground that would do just fine as a stopping place.

By the time island families such as the Poonsawats began constructing bamboo bungalows for backpackers in the early 1980s, Samui was best known as a stopping off point for the Full Moon parties on the neighbouring island of Koh Phangan.

Part dude ranch, part desert motel out of a Wim Wenders movie, it is there as a stopping point on the way to the park, and it serves fairly well.

They are migrants, using the islands as a stopping place on their annual journeys between Europe where they breed and Africa where they winter; and the two main trapping seasons are timed to coincide with their migrations in spring and autumn.