How to Use ring road in a Sentence

ring road

noun
  • Traffic on the city’s central ring road, while lighter than usual, was still heavy.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Cars that before would pass through the city to go other places are diverted to a ring road.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The 1,400-mile-long ring road has been ruined by decades of war and neglect.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The drive along Cairo’s ring road is one sign of a paradoxical problem.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • The only way to get from one segment to another would be via a ring road that runs around the perimeter.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Back on the ring road, the sodden gray clouds threatening all morning made good on their promise.
    — Ellen Perlman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • This is the present condition at outer ring road which connects marathalli – silk board.
    — Saritha Rai, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The march was due to end in front of parliament, further along the capital's inner ring road.
    — Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The school is located on Peshawar's ring road, on the southern outskirts of the city.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The other two are in the middle of the property with one next to the interior ring road of the mall.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Parts of Cairo’s ring road were shut down for several hours, forcing some travelers to spend the night in their cars.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Russian tanks stood near the city's ring road, the mayor said, adding that the subway stations were the safest places for residents.
    — NBC News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The ring road that wraps around Kaua‘i has a 30-kilometer gap that is the Nāpali coast.
    — Brendan Borrell, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Iceland’s 800-mile-long ring road circles the entire country.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • China dismantled relics of the Qing empire to build a ring road around Beijing.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The last major piece of road building in Bengaluru was an outer ring road built 24 years ago.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Also, parts of Cairo's ring road were shut down for several hours, forcing some travelers to spend the night in their cars.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • How to Get Around Cozumel is a small but well-maintained island with a ring road, as well as one that bisects the island.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In Brussels too, traffic on the ring road around the capital was disrupted by angry farmers.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • It was supposed to include a ring road, but only a small portion of it, from Windsor to Manchester, was built.
    — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Stop and see the horses when driving along Highway 1 (the ring road) between Reykjavik and Vik.
    — Liz Dufour, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • The 58-acre site and its 15-acre ring road are expected to be listed for sale in early 2026.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • An extensive ring road around Afghanistan was funded by multiple grants and donors, totaling billions during the course of the war.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The traffic filter plans spearheaded by Enright were aimed at encouraging drivers to use the ring road to get around the city rather than cut across it.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2023
  • In France, dozens of buses and trucks drove slowly on the Paris ring road Monday to demonstrate their concerns about rising diesel prices.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The students travelling in the other two buses were stopped by the Iguala Palace of Justice, beyond the ring road.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Authorities also said a crowd briefly blocked the main ring road surrounding the city before police dispersed the gathering.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • Ironically, the ring road was constructed over the summer to relieve vehicle congestion at the school.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Beijing now has seven concentric ring roads rippling outward from the Forbidden City.
    — Andrew Moore, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Two sites inside of what had been the mall’s ring road are under consideration for the station, according to village documents.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026

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