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Topics road topics
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Examples road examples
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Simple sentences
The road is too narrow for cars.
Am I on the wrong road?
The road was quite muddy, and, what is worse, it began to rain.
Tom was afraid to cross the road.
This road is under repair.
Turn left when you get to the fork in the road.
This road is very narrow.
Do you sell road maps?
The road was under construction.
Aggressive drivers who tailgate are a danger to the general public. Tailgating is basically a kind of road rage.
I don't think this is the wrong road.
Sami is constantly on the road.
Which road leads to town?
Look out! There's a hole in the road.
Take the road on the right.
The road which leads to the hotel is narrow.
The ball rolled across the road.
A rat ran across the road.
The muddy road has ruined my new shoes.
A truck was standing in the middle of the road.
Drivers must look out for children crossing the road.
No matter which road you follow, the drive to town won't take you more than twenty minutes.
It's not a road, but a path.
The bus ran on the long and winding road.
Then the bus left the town and drove along a country road.
The old man walked across the road carefully.
There is no easy road to learning.
A cellar was dug on top of the hill and they slowly moved the house from the road to the hill.
There are more cars on the road in the summer than in the winter.
Broken glass lay scattered all over the road.
May I have a road map, please?
I lost my balance on the muddy road.
Movie subtitles
What people don't understand is that evolution is not a road map.
It's been a long road.
This guy's all over the road.
I took the high road last night and left him at the party with you.
No, I took the high road and left him with you.
Another dirty bastard for the road?
Get out of the road!
Marcus, they did, and that's how they ended up on the main road.
We've bedsores, diabetes and haemorrhoids the length of the commercial road.
A quick round in the Black Sail, one for the road in the Hand and Shears, and then off to Walthamstow dogs, stag party done and dusted.
We can't go down that road ever again, okay?
He's on the road most of the time.
They fritter away much too much time on these silly road trips.
Let's hit the road.
For the Egyptians it was Isis' wheat, the Incas saw it as golden star dust, for the Eskimos it was a band of snow and the Christians thought of it as the road to Rome.
Me too. We can't go down that road ever again, okay?
We blocked a road with my comrades. We were protesting.
A road goes past my cottage, lined by tall cypresses.
His heart heavy, but full of good intentions, Jean set out on the road home.
For the road.
The road is dangerous the Reds showed up.
I've got business that calls me back down the road Santa Fe way.
But I gotta kill me a pair of skunks, back apiece on the road to Santa Fe.
Listen, Thorpe. I never quit a job in the middle of the road.
But after the girl quit you in the middle of the road.
What was that, Karl? It's an awful road.
I don't understand why you should choose a road that leads to such a death.
Mrs Peters. 101 Bridge Road, Crawley.
The road is divided into three parts.
It's not possible for me to provide for you. if I can gain fame with the sword the road to being a government official might open up for me.
Bump him off the road!
Now, you. you go right out Cocoanut Road.
Then there's Augustine Road, like this, but instead, you take the Granada Road.
Cocoanut Manor, Granada Road, 20 feet from the clearing.
And right over here where the road forks, that's Cocoanut Junction.
News and current affairs
As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
At the same time, it is important to pursue international efforts to develop rules of the road that can limit conflict.
The test, of course, is not in the planning, but in the implementation of withdrawal, and the road is long and bumpy.
In effect, the political system would again be kicking the can down the road, with real progress on necessary fiscal reforms expected only after the November 2012 presidential election.
Despite positive developments, the road ahead is bumpy.
Yet a road map for a peaceful transition can be designed.
But it could also become the first, essential step on the road to the drafting of a European constitution.
But when New Jersey Governor John Corzine was involved in a serious road accident last month, it became known that he violated his own state's law by not wearing his seat belt.
Arguably, it is a choice for economic modernization, for an end to the politics of conflict, and for positive political change further down the road.
If Arafat had taken this road - accepting Israel's existence, ending terrorism, and confronting Palestinian extremists - the conflict would have ended long ago.
Even if a Palestinian state committed to peaceful coexistence were created, down the road Israel may be unable to avoid the fate of Northern Ireland.
As the Iraqi people take more steps along the challenging road to democracy, more NATO countries have agreed to help train Iraqi security personnel by providing funds or equipment and by establishing a war college and military academies.
Damage is done from the word go while the end of the road remains obscured.
Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have thus followed a strikingly similar road: access to lucrative markets trumped ethical anxiety.
If California is any indicator, a ban on driver's licenses won't be effective in keeping undocumented workers off the road.
After four hours on a dirt road, I reached a highlands hamlet.
Perhaps Obama thinks that he or his successor can deal with that threat down the road.
By opting for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese Communist leadership set their country on a road starkly different from the one on which Russia subsequently embarked.
Today, peace with Syria might facilitate an Israeli peace with Lebanon down the road, but that will not be an automatic outcome.
For example, instead of investing heavily in the infrastructure needed for regional integration, a country like Ethiopia would be better off building industrial parks and linking them by road to ports in Djibouti.
The world also wanted to see the US retaking the high road in reinforcing business ethics and integrity - so lacking under the last administration.
Two-thirds of its population is under the age of 30, and unemployment is high; it needs to attract foreign investment for its oil and gas industry, and to finance road construction and other infrastructure projects.
All along the road were throngs of people.