Sentence examples for shut down roads from inspiring English sources

Traffic snarled as the police shut down roads in the area.

Waters in some areas had reached the tops of roofs, shut down roads and power, and devastated entire neighborhoods.

College students and activists shut down roads, started fires in the street and angrily cried "not my president".

The mines shut down roads to move trucks more efficiently, adding thirty minutes to her father's commute, but her parents weren't concerned.

Just behind her was the Home Depot where the sniper killed the latest victim on Monday night and then vanished, despite an intensive dragnet that shut down roads in the Washington area for hours.

"If we acted on every piece of raw intelligence in a way that some were suggesting after Bali," he said, "we would have in my time as prime minister on many occasions shut down roads, railways, airports, stations, shopping centers, factories, military installations.

If the current storm continues on its current path without weakening, it is expected to cause large-scale power and communications outages and shut down road and rail links, officials said.

In Cass County, N.D., which encompasses Fargo, smaller rivers that normally feed into the Red River have backed up, shutting down roads, swamping entire communities and turning huge areas of farmland into huge lakes.

The release of the findings comes weeks after the New York Police Department said it would charge organizers of the marathon and other "noncharitable athletic parades" that use the city streets for the cost of controlling traffic and other services associated with shutting down roads.

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

We go on the road with a 30-strong convoy of radical Palestinians and international solidarity activists, shutting down roads with chains and playing an elaborate game of cat and mouse with the Israeli army.