Sentence examples for concrete streets from inspiring English sources

That's right – I shall spend two hours of my Sunday running in tight loops around the grey concrete streets of Birmingham and call it fun.

In one sense, the schoolgirls have become pawns in a long-running struggle for supremacy over the rough concrete streets of North Belfast.

I joined a cluster of people staring down at a scaly crocodile crawling from a gaping crack in the pavement, one of myriad pieces of 3D chalk art splashed across Sarajevo's concrete streets during the Beton Fest.

The short narrow street of the slum succeeds where spacious redevelopment frequently fails". The Smithsons proposed "streets in the skies", flats and duplexes raised into the skyscape and lined along superimposed concrete streets to replace slums and to augment existing city streets.

The residents had envisioned fountains springing from concrete, streets closed for public parks, and new stores flinging open their doors to recapture the vitality that radiated half a century ago from the area, once called the Times Square of the Bronx.

Except for time off for surgery on his wrist for carpal tunnel syndrome, a job-related, repetitive motion injury, Mr. Bartolotti has taken only three sick days during his time of pounding out 15-foot holes with a jackhammer, 25 miles at a stretch through concrete streets.

A road sweeps upwards past an old house and a new block of flats to a horizon edged by big concrete street lights.

A 20-year-old Long Island man was charged with manslaughter and drunken driving yesterday after he crashed his motorcycle into a concrete street divider, killing his passenger, the authorities said.

The concrete street was a long dance floor, and my wing moved along it in leafy anarchy: twirling, waving, doing the quick steps of accomplished samba dancers or just shaking our hips.

Over the years, ethnic tension became a way of life in Tskhinvali, the provincial capital of South Ossetia, a city ringed by highlands where concrete street barriers were sometimes erected to keep the groups apart.

Now, I was one among tens of thousands of masqueraders dressed to parade along the 2,000-foot 2,000-footthe Sambodromo, a concrete street flength by bleachers that hofd 66,000 people.