Sentence examples for start of a ride from inspiring English sources

At the start of a ride, cabbies can simply click a small button on their meters that categorizes the trip as Code No. 4, for a ride outside the city, rather than Code 1, the lower, in-city rate.

As a Republican delegate, you may not like government regulation any more than taxi passengers liked having celebrities telling them to buckle their seat belts (at the start of a ride) and to take their belongings and get a receipt (at the end).

He quotes a passage from Peter Fleming's "News From Tartary" that provides a wry note of self-awareness: "He who starts on a ride of 2,000 or 3,000 miles may experience, at the moment of departure, a variety of emotions.

The reception was unkind, the start of a rough ride for Mailer.

Contemporary cosmological research has become so thought-provoking — and just so flat-out weird — as to make the attainments of the last hundred years resemble the rattling, ratcheting start of a roller coaster ride.

Then Dale Earnhardt Jr. helped Keselowski get a fresh start, with the offer of a ride in the Nascar Nationwide Series.

At the start of the ride there are a few other adults on board, and they register some of the shock that audience members might feel at the cruelty, bad language and freewheeling obnoxiousness of the younger passengers.

Two minutes of conversation at the start of the ride transformed what was once a meaningless frequently unpleasant transaction into an experience that put me in a better mood for the rest of the day.

At the start of the ride, the assistant asked us to pose for a camera shot through a hole in the side of the ball.

"The spirit of Norway is the spirit of adventure," you proclaimed in an ominous tone at the start of your ride.

The fact that the hit men were in position from the start of the bicycle ride — an activity that was not a regular part of Rosenberg's Sunday routine — suggested that a person with inside knowledge had tipped them off.