Sentence examples for avenues run from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the avenues run consecutively with nothing in between, depending on the neighborhood.

Only the two "feeder" arteries, Continental and Ascan Avenues, run straight.

The system works like this: avenues run east and west and streets run north and south, the opposite of Manhattan's system.

There are several intermittent avenues east of First Avenue, including four additional lettered avenues running from Avenue A eastward to Avenue D in an area now known as Alphabet City in Manhattan's East Village.

Finally, we reached Marshan, a genteel neighborhood just west of the medina, where broad avenues ran past grandly decaying mansions and pristine palaces.

Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be "nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide" – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing's agoraphobia-inducing highways.

Part of the rationale was that new names would distinguish the haut-bourgeois West Side from the lower part of the city through which the numbered avenues ran, particularly the undistinguished factories, flats and tenements of the West 30s, 40s and 50s.

The developer George Klein and later, Prudential Insurance, were chosen, but progress was slow as the state's effort to gain control of 13 acres along 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues ran into 47 separate lawsuits and a devastating recession in the early 1990's.

He was also instrumental in creating New York City's "vast grid of 12 parallel avenues running eight miles up the length of the island and 155 streets at right angles to them".

Wide avenues ran the length and breadth of the factory and along the main thoroughfare leading to the gate was a sort of Foxconn strip mall complete with stores selling food and sundries.

The address system is mostly numbered, with streets running south to north and avenues running east to west.