How to Use rest stop in a Sentence
rest stop
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The scenic areas of the park have often been in conflict with its use as a rest stop.
— oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023 -
Did the truck shut down its engine at a rest stop causing the cooler to shut off?
— Guy Yehiav, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Pike shows the available services at the Charlton rest stop.
— Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023 -
This was at a rest stop, but these McDonald's prices are nuts right???
— Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 July 2023 -
With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop.
— Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023 -
Our bus [was] surrounded at a rest stop on the Mason-Dixon Line by a White mob, thugs.
— Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023 -
At the Darien rest stop location, the same meal is a whopping $21.59 on GrubHub.
— Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 July 2023 -
This unadorned room offers none of the usual amenities of a rest stop.
— Thallman, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023 -
The food receipt was dated Dec. 3 and found to have come from an Arby’s at a rest stop in Grantsville, Maryland.
— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024 -
The well was a rest stop for travelers going from Grapevine to Fort Worth, according to the city.
— Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2024 -
The two were spotted at a rest stop during a quarantine road trip and a source told People that the pair weren’t dating … yet.
— Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 -
During the transport, Johnson’s partner stopped at a rest stop.
— Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 17 Apr. 2024 -
At every concert, rest stop, or hotel, band or crew would lift Satterwhite in or out of the RV.
— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024 -
At the first rest stop, everybody decides to keep going on the optional loop through the Bayou and along Shell Belt Road.
— Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 4 June 2023 -
The top of Las Palmas, though, is more than a vantage point, a rest stop high above Medellín and its 2.5 million residents.
— James Wagner, New York Times, 12 July 2023 -
This rest stop offers a bird’s-eye view of the green Ojai valley floor and farmland below, in a bowl surrounded by the Topatopa Mountains.
— Eric A. Taub, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023 -
The two women hadn’t talked since that rest stop meeting, and yet the woman with a cane made a donation to Pedersen’s cause last week.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Several bridges crisscrossing Lick Creek will delight the kids and a playground on the path makes for a good rest stop for parents.
— Jen Guadarrama, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2024 -
But how does that Connecticut rest stop's prices compare to McDonald's prices here in the Valley?
— Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2023 -
On Monday, Calcasieu Parish police were notified of a body in the water at a rest stop in the parish, per the department’s statement.
— Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024 -
In a stroke of genius, Pier 39 officials installed wooden floats more than three decades ago to serve as a rest stop for curious sea lions.
— Heather Knight Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 30 May 2024 -
Sometimes, a thick slice of radish goes next, creating a rest stop for the pieces of cooked beef, which a server keeps separate, so there’s no confusing, say, short ribs from rib fingers.
— Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023 -
An official statement from Egypt says construction is ongoing in the area to create a rest stop for truck drivers delivering aid to Gaza.
— Aya Batrawy, NPR, 8 May 2024 -
After more than 40 years, San Antonio police have made an arrest — thanks to genealogy testing — in the case of a missing 18-year-old who was found dead near a Comal County rest stop.
— Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Most of his art is like that — a rest stop on the way to heavier concerns such as paying rent, carrying an expensive mortgage, or trying to construct a back unit to help afford said mortgage payments.
— Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023 -
Two days later, Palacios filed a false police report in Texas claiming that the tractor-trailer, along with the Perry Ellis perfume shipment, had been stolen earlier that day at a rest stop.
— Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024 -
Another problem for the driver of an electric vehicle is that if the battery runs low on a trip from, say, Los Angeles to San Francisco, who wants to pull into a rest stop and wait for an hour for recharging?
— Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023 -
To most people, pulling into a highway rest stop is a profoundly mundane experience.
— Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
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