Sentence examples for there were closed from inspiring English sources

He said that he tried to fill up in Brooklyn but that stations there were closed, or the lines were worse than in Manhattan.

In the 1960s Mr. Harman was an active opponent of the Vietnam War, and for a year taught black pupils in Prince Edward County, Va., after public schools there were closed in a notorious effort to avoid desegregation.

Despite these warnings, the mood on the mainland in the run-up to the Taiwan elections this time is far calmer than it was four years ago, when large stretches of the Chinese coast across from Taiwan were turned into a military zone and civilian airports there were closed to commercial traffic.

To serve breakfast, they had to get to the hotel at 4 a.m., as the streets around there were closed by 6.

Several flights carrying tourists and residents fleeing the storm zone left Cairns and Townsville early Wednesday, before airports there were closed.

With the big reduction in rocket attacks over the past year, his work in Israel has diminished, but for a while a couple of years ago, there were closed eyes and soft bellies going simultaneously in Israel and Gaza, a few miles apart.

Writer envisions Sundays when the market that was once there was closed.

The Christmas market, a holiday tradition there, was closed.

The Army R.O.T.C. unit there is closed & gone.

Now there are closing in on 11,000.

If there are closing costs, shop around.