ring road
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Vast energy-hungry warehouses around Dublin's ring road host thousands of servers handling massive amounts of cloud computing, storage and AI demands for data giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025
He says the ring road around Ipswich is "full of roundabouts" and "designed in the 1960s".
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024
The two women passed each other in opposite directions on the pavement of Huntingdon's ring road.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024
He is back in Pantin, just outside the north-east corner of the peripherique - the ring road that separates central Paris from its suburbs.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2024
He came to a large traffic circle where the road going north crossed the Oxford ring road going east and west.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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