Sentence examples for ribbon of road from inspiring English sources

Below, Cambridge looked like a toy city — gabled roofs and steeples, a ribbon of road, windshields winking in the sun.

Indeed, when driving through the vast openness of Gotland, the ribbon of road unfurls across a flat green landscape.

The two North African cities are connected by a ribbon of road and, also, by their respective recent "liberations" at the hands of anti-government protesters.

Look!" The broad sweep of his arm is meant to show off the new houses, and the ribbon of road that now snakes through the olive groves.

Of that world itself we see laughably little; Wong's idea of the Western landscape, such a fertile resource to generations of writers and directors, is a few speeded-up shots of a Jaguar on a ribbon of road.

Of that world itself we see laughably little; Wong's idea of the Western landscape, such a fertile resource for generations of writers and directors, is a few speeded-up shots of a Jaguar on a ribbon of road.

When will we as a nation admit that bigger cars, long-distance trucking and ribbons of road do not come without a price?

Each portrays a segment of a winding stream or river, the sinuous curves of its fertile banks lined with ribbons of road, stretches of farmland, neat rows of houses.

Shot at random on long rides through southern and western parts of the United States, they encompass ribbons of road, bleak or plowed fields, bare trees, rutted snow, telephone poles, a bridge understructure, a distant railroad crossing sign.

The overall effect is that of a silver bullet, designed to slice through lazy plains and tangled ribbons of road alike.

A ribbon of flat road, called The Road that Killed the Beggarman, bisects the Hook Head promontory, in the far west of County Wexford from base to tip.