Sentence examples for wrecked roads from inspiring English sources

Despite the drenching from Irene that wrecked roads all around us and exacted substantial damage well up into New England, the basement was only damp this time.

Haupt and his crew quickly rebuilt the wharf, then worked day and night to repair the wrecked roadbed in only three days.

The roads are wrecked.

Bridges and roads were wrecked throughout the affected region.

The latest disaster comes amid a humanitarian emergency in Nepal, with aid yet to reach many remote parts of the Himalayan nation after roads were wrecked by landslides.

There are so many wrecked cars and destroyed roads that there are Facebook pages and forums dedicated to documenting the absurd pervasiveness of accidents in Addis Ababa.

The latest disaster comes amid a humanitarian emergency in Nepal, with aid yet to reach many remote parts of the impoverished Himalayan nation after roads were wrecked by landslides.

24, or 24.1km per hour to be precise, is the Tour's slowest average speed and it was recorded in 1919, the first Tour after WWI, which had wrecked much of France's road network, making cycling difficult and painful.

Pretty much everything was wrecked then, and refugees filled the roads; blown over by modern Europe's prosperity, Flint compares memories with French and German survivors of the war, while Gimlette makes excursions back and forth through the decades to fill in context and bring in some British voices.

From the moment our unnamed heroine (Lindsay Pulsipher) awakens in a wrecked car on a deserted country road, we are plunged inside her head: a jangled soundscape of twanging guitars and partly tuned radio stations, heavy breathing and desperate screams.

In The Age of Stupid, the opening panoramas survey a similarly wrecked planet to the one in The Road: we see the Sydney Opera House backed by an advancing wall of flames; a baked-brown Matterhorn devoid of snow; the garish neon lights of Las Vegas half-buried, forgotten, in the sands; a vulture tearing at a human corpse outside the Taj Mahal.