Word Finder - roads

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A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.

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A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation.

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We travelled to the seaside by road.

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A path chosen in life or career.

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An underground tunnel in a mine.

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A railway or a single railway track.

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The act of riding on horseback.

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A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.

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(often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.

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A journey, or stage of a journey.

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A way or route.

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(occasionally in the singular) A roadstead.

The city changed as she wandered the zigzag roads toward its center until she came upon an inner wall - -now open - -leading to stone structures gleaming with gold and silver artwork.

Most of the route was via Interstate roads and easy driving.

The roads were crooked and muddy and rough.

I remembered how isolated these roads were, but I forgot how dangerous they were.

The roads were muddy, and the first of several wells she saw teemed with dirty water.

Are the roads clear?

The roads up there are closed by snow two-thirds of the year.

Sofia watched the scenery turn from urban to rural and recognized the roads leading up to Skyline Drive, the scenic route running through the mountains of northern Virginia.

The sun is shining brightly to-day and I hope we shall go to ride if the roads are dry.

Unless he sticks to back roads, he can't get away.

Two roads from the wall, she saw where the wounded and dead were being kept.

Is no part of this god forsaken state level or the roads straight?

There are numerous side roads but this is becoming a massive man hunt.

She'd traveled nonstop, sticking to narrow country roads and the forest to avoid both people and zones marked as having any sort of radiation fallout from the nuke strikes.

There are a lot of swamps in Arkansas, so just stick as close to the roads as you can.

There are practically no branch roads in Turkestan, and the only means of transport in bulk is either by wagon on the few main roads, or by railway.

The first British factory in the peninsula was established in the native state of Patani on the east coast in 1613, the place having been used by the Portuguese in the 16th century for a similar purpose; but the enterprise came to an untimely end in 1620 when Captain Jourdain, the first president, was killed in a naval engagement in Patani Roads by the Dutch.

There is no general property tax except a special levy of 8% on the general list for school purposes and 5% for the construction of roads.

Two inclined roads lead from the centre of the boulevard to the quay 40 ft.

Being a meeting point of six main roads,' it was much visited by travellers.

From Rome itself roads radiated in all directions.

But the two different roads led to the same result.

We asked about buildings; there were none, only corn in the four fields separated by the cross roads.

Our route scooted between Pennsylvania and Virginia for three hours until we crossed into West Virginia and traded a major highway for winding secondary roads.

I was awoken by the gunshot and both of us drove the roads around the perimeter of the property but neither heard nor saw his vehicle.

She drove the winding roads from her father's manor through County Clare and south towards the Cliffs of Moher to Doolin, one of her favorite day trips.

He drove them through back roads and alleys to ensure no one followed before taking the highway and exiting into a direction that appeared to be nothing but desert.

It had been the mildest late winter in years and the lack of high country snow had opened the Jeep roads weeks earlier than usual.

I loathe these horrible roads, but I love the places they take you.

The roads up here haven't been free of snow all that long.

Dean planned to spend his free time biking, but changed his mind when he saw the crowds in town and remembered the traffic that would clog the narrow roads.

The road was rough but not limited to four-wheel drive vehicles like the mountain Jeep roads to the south.

The meadow was a tranquil site, far removed from main roads of present day habitation.

The lush Scottish Highlands around him were covered in a blanket of snow that stretched for miles, the white world interrupted only by a few narrow roads snaking in different directions.

There aren't any open side roads and hardly a plowed turnoff on this highway for twenty miles.

However, winter locked the mountain jeep roads beneath yards of snow for all but a few short summer weeks.

Soon they were snuggled beneath a heavy wool robe, gliding contentedly down the snow covered back roads of the Uncompahgre valley.

The roads were nearly empty but low visibility made driving treacherous.

His route to Philly looked like a drunkard's path, zigzagging a series of country roads that were at times crowded with local traffic.

Dean retrieved his car and fought his way out of town on roads thick with retreating commuters.

The light jackets came off early as the pair pedaled along, mostly riding side by side since the rural roads carried sparse traf­fic.

In spite of the cloudy weather and the threat of rain, Dean ended the daylight hours listening to the hum of his bike tires on the country roads west of Parkside.

Had this happened any other time, she would have suggested they go out for supper, but the roads weren't the only thing icy tonight.

Fifteen minutes to travel six miles to the clinic — most of it rough gravel roads.

The small town had only dirt roads, and his glanced lingered towards a farmers market under the awnings in the center, a couple of blocks away.

He all but dragged her through the quiet, stinking roads of Corcoran, seething, oblivious to the wooden huts lining the muddied street on each side of them.

My allies will block their roads and take the fortresses at the borders, among other actions.

Two other passes, farther to the west, were crossed by the roads from Plataea to Athens and to Megara respectively.

Astorga was the Roman Asturica Augusta, a provincial capital, and the meeting-place of four military roads.

For twenty-two years I have lived amongst these pollarded trees, these rutty roads, beside these tangled thickets and streams along whose banks only children and sheep can pass.