Sentence examples for western spur from inspiring English sources

Rochdale town lies at the confluence of the Rivers Spodden and Roch at the foot of a western spur of the Pennines.

Phase 1 of the Meadowlands project is to include 27 to 36 holes of golf on both sides of the western spur of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Officials shut down the western spur of the turnpike from Exit 15W to Exit 18W and diverted traffic onto the eastern spur for about four hours.

Firefighters and Department of Transportation workers labored under the sun throughout the hazy afternoon to secure the site, and finally, around 6 15 p.m., the entire western spur was opened, said Joe Orlando, a spokesman for the Turnpike Authority.

Koplik was driving in the right-hand lane on the western spur of the New Jersey Turnpike, not far from the Izod Center, when a tractor-trailer merged into Koplik's lane without signaling.

Dauphiné Alps, French Alpes Du Dauphiné, western spur of the Cottian Alps (q.v.) in southeastern France, lying between the Arc and Isère river valleys (north) and the upper Durance River valley (south).

The Chersky and Verkhoyansk ranges are the western spurs of that belt.

This garden spot is right past interchanges with both the eastern and western spurs of the New Jersey Turnpike and just short of the Lincoln Tunnel.

Mount Bia, Lao Bia Phou, highest peak (9,245 feet [2,818 metres]) in Laos, located among the western spurs of the Annamese Cordillera (Chaîne Annamitique) immediately south of the Xiangkhoang Plateau.

For anyone who doesn't know, the Meadowlands are that vast amalgam of junk and life that loom between Exits 14 and 18, and around the eastern and western spurs of the turnpike.

La Mancha, arid but largely fertile elevated plateau (2,000 feet [610 metres]) formed over limestone in central Spain, stretching between the Toledo Mountains and the western spurs of the Cuenca hills and bounded by the La Alcarria region to the north and the Sierra Morena to the south.