Sentence examples for steep approaches from inspiring English sources

The steep approaches to the Lincoln Tunnel were closed for several hours Thursday night to allow work crews to spread sand on the roadway.

The old town was built on higher levels and on the steep approaches to the castle, where many fine examples of 16th- and 17th-century domestic buildings still survive.

· Iain Banks's The Steep Approach to Garbadale is published in paperback next month by Little, Brown.

His political views became more overt in such fiction as Dead Air (2002) and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007).

Banks's next work of literary fiction was The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007), a return to the territory of The Crow Road.

The steep approach road from Santiago is lined with colossal cacti, rocks covered with spicy-scented espino weeds, and meadows that are full of golden yuyous that look like large buttercups.

Like The Crow Road and The Steep Approach to Garbadale –it is the story of a man coming back to his family home, and it is difficult not to think that this is Banks's story of himself.

My own preference is for his broadly realistic coming-of-age stories, the family sagas – such as last year's Stonemouth, The Steep Approach to Garbadale, and most of all, 1992's The Crow Road.

Those with more walking experience should try this short steep approach to the tarn past Tom Gill Beck – pick a clear day for stunning views across Wetherlam and the Coniston fells.

The set-up is a familiar one to Banks's many fans, and the tone is reminiscent of his big set-piece family novels such as The Crow Road and The Steep Approach to Garbadale.

Mr. Myers, he said, "had the airplane off the ground in an incredibly short roll," then made "a steep approach" and finally "landed in about 500 feet, rolled up to our astounded group and let off an ashen-faced flight commander".