Sentence examples for parking metres from inspiring English sources

Democracy is used to justify everything from parking metres to regime change.

Ships and coastal installations are smashed to matchwood in seconds and solid metal structures such as parking metres are combed flat.

You gotta earn your way up, pal," after he offers to pay the man's fare for the parking metre.

His expenses claims ranged from £647.50 for a two night stay at The Bellagio, the Las Vegas hotel featured in the George Clooney film Ocean's Eleven, to 70p that he fed into a parking metre.

The bus was parked metres away from the news centre of TV Globo, the main terrestrial channel; and as police reinforcements arrived so did TV crews.

A train carriage with its middle blown out, steel guts still dangling, sat marooned in a car park metres from the door.

In a simple house whose back wall borders the park, metres from the fishponds, Eli Maria Jose Salis and her family have enjoyed a steady supply of spring water, run in from the park in a pipe that leads to a second water tank, for more than 30 years.

And this is proper urban cricket: where lunch is from the corner shop, the home ground is often a cramped local park metres from the traffic, with drunks, dogs, toddlers or London park madmen likely to wander across the square at any moment (there to be politely, genially escorted off).

The presidential convoy was parked 200 metres from the explosion on Monday.

Aerial images showed that the plane hit parked cars metres from the tarmac, destroying around 15 vehicles on impact.

Twenty minutes ago I left a car-park 400 metres back, and I've been crawling along, wishing my car had an automatic gear-box, ever since.