Sentence examples for off from town from inspiring English sources

The town, a collection of single-level ranch houses and rough streets, is bordered by electric transmission wires and the California Aqueduct, which is sealed off from town residents by a barbed-wire, chain-link fence.

For now, every American astronaut blasts off from this town, the stand-in for Cape Canaveral during a gap in funding for manned missions in the United States.

The twin engine Aerostar encountered bad weather on Friday afternoon after taking off from the town of Santa Fe Antioquia for the short flight to Medellin.

When the Grand Départ sets off from Leeds town hall next month, all 180 riders in the peloton will be men.

The Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boat took off from the town of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinksy in Russia's far east on 26 June 1935 carrying the passengers and money collected from a local tractor repair workshop.

The market town of Can Tho was all noise and shouts and busy people, but once the refurbished rice barge with its cosy en suite cabins cast off from a town pier, all was peaceful.

"But I am reticent to breathe down the necks of people who live in villages that originally broke off from the town to develop their own unique ability to govern themselves".

"Swan Upping" refers to the annual summer voyage of a flotilla of wooden skiffs that sets off from the town of Sunbury-on-Thames on a five-day journey to catch all the swans on the upper reaches of the River Thames.

I didn't see any of the old fortifications that the narrator encounters, and the looming presence of Sizewell up the coast adds a new sinister edge all of its own, but otherwise, on the sand at the edge of the sea, cut off from the town beneath the steep shingle bank, it's easy to feel the "loneliness" that James evokes so well.

We hear that all morning: the business district is sealed off from the town and no one can enter by vehicle.

When the dam crested during Hurricane Matthew in 2016, the Hope Mills area effectively became cut off from the town, according to the Charlotte Observer.