Sentence examples for roads shut from inspiring English sources

Unseasonal snow over the past couple of weeks has blocked roads, shut airports, closed schools and brought the army out to help clear Edinburgh's streets.

The airport had been evacuated with all flights suspended and roads shut following the discovery of a suspicious item, identified in reports as a pair of hair straighteners, in the security search area.

Against the fear that could dissuade collaborators, there are new pressures to compel Palestinians to work with Israel: deeper poverty and the increased difficulty of moving even from one town to another on roads shut by Israeli checkpoints.

Roads shut because of high winds around Leeds' tallest building are due to reopen having been closed for 10 hours.

Almost 9,500 roads shut across England and Wales for parties, while others held smaller get-togethers in gardens and parks.

To have the roads shut down?

We wouldn't be here shutting down roads, shutting down transport systems, if the system worked.

Protesters from Black Lives Matter UK started to block the road leading to Heathrow airport, laying themselves across the tarmac on the M4 at the start of what became a full day of "shutdown" actions around England. "We wouldn't be here shutting down roads, shutting down transport systems, if the system worked," said protester Shanice Octavia, speaking to VICE on Friday afternoon.

The Long Island Rail Road "shut down the one we had, at Republic Airport, in 1986," he added.

Grosvenor Road shut off under police cordon owing to suspect device found So apparently there's a bomb scare in Victoria and a whole block by Grosvenor Gardens has been evacuated.

The Long Island Rail Road shut down service on the part of the line stretching from Huntington Station, about two miles west of Greenlawn, to Port Jefferson, the eastern terminus.