Sentence examples for highways closed from inspiring English sources

The West Virginia national guard urged residents to evacuate area homes, and the West Virginia division of highways closed a portion of Keystone Drive.

We met all sorts of people, from retired pipe fitters to vacationing academics, and shared tales of our adventures and the latest news on highways closed and campsites renovated.

With many highways closed -- motorists were urged to go nowhere without dire reason -- National Guardsmen, police officers, Red Cross personnel and other volunteers, many of them using all-terrain vehicles, delivered food, water and blankets to isolated people in towns and rural areas across Arkansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

Friday's incident snarled traffic as authorities blocked highways, closed the main railway station, and shut down public transport.

The highway closed; life went on.

Socialist-run city hall says it intends to keep the highway closed to vehicles for good.

With the highway closed in both directions, cars were shepherded onto the service roads — which themselves were not always open.

"It is like a ghost town with the highway closed and the financial district closed," Hussein Muhammad, a bookstore owner and activist, said by telephone.

They appeared to have escaped unharmed, and soon after the gunfire subsided sped back to Kandahar city, the provincial capital, on a highway closed to other traffic.

To Mr. King, seeing the ramps of an interstate highway closed off during a motorcade was "like watching us lose votes at every exit".

Customers stuck bumper to bumper on the Fairfield Avenue detour -- as well as construction workers repairing the burned bridge -- have been stopping at the diner for a quick meal since the highway closed.