Sentence examples for deserted thoroughfares from inspiring English sources

In its place, a plow scraped by now and then and a car or two churned past on deserted thoroughfares.

Live broadcasts on state television meant to show that downtown Damascus was under control mostly showed its thoroughfares deserted.

Broad Street, the town's main thoroughfare, was deserted and indifferent.

The thoroughfare was deserted but for more than a dozen fire engines and their crews, ready to pounce on wandering embers or any flames that might approach this mining town that sprang up from a gold rush in the Cuyamaca Mountains in the 1870's.

The parking lots at two shopping plazas on Route 28, the main thoroughfare here, stand deserted.

These days, thoroughfares that once looked deserted and menacing after business hours are bustling with people going to new restaurants and other destinations, like the Ace Hotel, which contains the newly restored Beaux-Arts United Artist Theater.

Thoroughfares lined with stores have been deserted, the storefronts covered with blue metal roll-down gates.

The people of Amazonia pack off to ground there is, their riverside villages eerily deserted, water up to the windows, the main thoroughfares sheets of shimmering caramel with streetlamps poking aloft like snorkels.

The film festival wound down the previous evening, and now the thoroughfare between the beach and the cinemas is deserted except for construction workers in threes and fours dismantling the decorations.

Even the usually busy thoroughfares of Serekunda, on the outskirt of the capital, are deserted.

Downtown Chicago is deserted on Saturday mornings, except for the construction workers remaking Wacker Drive, a major downtown thoroughfare.