Sentence examples for grid of roads from inspiring English sources

His plan proposed a grid of roads (which some residents still call "the knitting") connected by roundabouts.

When I was there, there was little more than a grid of roads cutting through desert as far as you could see in any direction.

The old city with the Jokhang at its heart, surrounded by a ring of monasteries, has been displaced by a grid of roads, offices and apartment blocks.

Nearing the crest, we could see Jordan, Syria and Lebanon spread out below, a grid of roads and fences marking the borders between green and brown patches of land.

As the modest colonial grid of roads was chewed up to make way for more lanes, century-old jacaranda and thika trees that had once shaded them were being chopped down.

Rather than a rigidly square grid imposed upon a landscape as in San Francisco, MK's grid was Romantic and English, a grid of roads which curved with the contours of the land.

For years it has been dismissed as a soulless new town, famous only for its concrete cows and grid system of roads.

The town planners aspired to a genuinely utopian vision – open spaces, bigger houses, central heating and a grid system of roads – built as an overspill to the terrible slum conditions of inner-city London.

In the late-18th and early-19th centuries, the town was re-planned, with a grid pattern of roads.

Milton Keynes is an English town famous not only for its grid system of roads and its herd of concrete cows but because in 1998 it was deemed so boring that even chartered accountants refused to move there.

The only thing that breaks up the fabric is a grid of country roads.