hard shoulder
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
The horrific reality was that their car was stranded in the outside lane - lane four - of a smart motorway, with no hard shoulder to escape to in the event of a breakdown.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Tregonning told officers he used the hard shoulder because "at the that time I believed that was an emergency for me".
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
Constables Gordon Bremner and Andrew Blair, meanwhile, were in an unmarked Volvo s90 on the motorway when they pulled over another Mercedes on the hard shoulder.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
Lip-lip essayed to back away, but White Fang struck him hard, shoulder to shoulder.
From White Fang by London, Jack
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