Sentence examples for road draws from inspiring English sources

For example, a Silverado cruising at 50 miles an hour on a level road draws about 18 horsepower from the engine, with the alternator using more than half of that horsepower.

The signings of Thierry Henry and Rafael Marquez, both from F.C. Barcelona, turned the Red Bulls into one of the most attractive road draws in M.L.S. Their presence and strong play also enabled the team to increase its average home attendance by 6,000 fans a game from 2009.

Oswald's Falling Awake examines mutability; Duhig's The Blind Road draws from both Sterne's Tristram Shandy and the life of the 18th-century polymath Blind Jack Metcalf and Rileyy's Say Something Back revolves around her late son and includes her long poem about grieving and loss, A Part Song.

Red Road draws on the paranoia and unease of Coppola's The Conversation and Michael Haneke's video-inspired nightmares, and in its dreamlike sense of detail and mood it shows the poetic priorities of Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher or Lucrecia Martel's The Holy Girl.

Unimpressive road draws at Chivas and New England have countered the positives a little, but ahead of an intriguing doubleheader against LA starting next week, they'll be looking for another home win against the Rapids to continue a solid start to Carl Robinson's head coaching career.

ABC's "October Road" drew a disappointing five million viewers at 10.

Quality Road drew the No. 3 post in a six-horse field for the $750,000, one-and-one-eighth-mile Grade I race.

He compounded that by getting flagged for speeding as he left pit road, drawing a penalty that left him 33rd when he rejoined the field.

"Many just accept that lame-duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and 'milk it.' I'm not putting Alaska through that," she said.

(Could bright moonlight really have shone into her bedroom at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland on the night of June 15-16, 1816?) Enhanced digital versions of "The Waste Land" and "On the Road" drew headlines when they were released last summer, with the Eliot app at one point outselling more obviously commercial fare like a Marvel Comics app.

The Leicester Mercury wrote of one scheme: "Dozens of youngsters … filled the road, drawing with chalk, playing giant snakes and ladders, hopscotch or table tennis and generally enjoying the freedom of the thoroughfare, which is normally a busy cut-through used by motorists".