bridle path

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Recent Examples of bridle path She was discovered on the bridle path by a motorist who got her to Illinois Central Hospital, where she was found to be uninjured. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023 The scenic nine-mile Ojai Valley Trail offers a paved side for bicyclists, joggers, and walkers, with a dirt bridle path for horseback riding running alongside it. Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023 While the main trail is paved from point to point, there’s an eight-mile unpaved alternate trail that starts just south of the Skokie Lagoons following an old dirt bridle path. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022 Known as the Fens Pond Bridge, the old bridle path once marked the edge of Boston, a city Frederick Law Olmsted, more than a century in the grave, continues to shape. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper later reported that Byron was flying in a helicopter when he got caught in a downdraft, forcing him to land on a bridle path where Ms. Mimieux was horseback riding. Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022 Its situation at the intersection of San Pedro and Basse was considered ideal for its proximity to Olmos Park, Fort Sam Houston and Brackenridge Park, to which it was supposed to be connected by bridle paths. Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019 Down bridle paths, ancient roads, walkways and thruways. Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
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Noun
  • When the wagon trains started moving out West, when the boats were landing at the foot of Main street — then things started moving.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The new law has officials scrambling to create more shelter beds, so police have places besides jail to drop off people caught sleeping on the street.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Weather Channel is warning of slick roads and possible travel delays. Monday, with a high of just 25 and a low reaching around 10 degrees, is predicted to mark the beginning of a prolonged period of frigid conditions.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The agency then returned on Thursday, Jan. 16 and discovered the home had split and slid onto the road.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Many cities are begging residents to avoid driving as the sun melts snow that then refreezes, increasing the danger on roadways.
    Robert Shackelford, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Over 100 cars have been reported stranded on roadways, keeping crews from responding to emergencies, officials said.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Families being told to abandon their cars on evacuation routes to flee on foot and convalescent home residents being pushed down the street in wheelchairs as hot embers fly around them are scenes usually witnessed only in the movies.
    Caitlin Clarkson Pereira, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2025
  • City planner Nathan Koster told the council that more property owners along the route were open to recurring or regular closures of the intersection.
    Kyle Stokes, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And the key is to find new mental, emotional, and physical lanes to run in to continue to provide what's necessary for ourselves and our kids.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In over 1,500 pass block snaps playing at left tackle for Texas, Banks allowed just three sacks while helping pave running lanes off the edge for Bijan Robinson in 2022, Jonathan Brooks in 2023 and the duo of Quintrevion Wisner and Jaydon Blue in 2024.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Shafer, who finished third at last year’s BWT Finals in Hawaii, has also been named Captain of Team USA for the second year in a row.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Sure, the movie eventually stumbles across a variety of recognizable genre signifiers (an ominous circle of mushrooms, a row of bushes that ward off local spirits, a puddle that shudders while the rest of the world lies still, etc.), but only after it’s set its terms on a more elemental level.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The school’s proximity to two major thoroughfares, 47th Street and Pulaski Road, makes walking and biking too dangerous for most other parents in the community, Galvez Searle said.
    Sarah Macaraeg, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The 405, the major thoroughfare connecting L.A. with the San Fernando Valley, remains open.
    Matteo Moschella, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Baggy bombers were spotted on the runway at Saint Laurent’s spring 2025 fashion show, which clearly nodded to the decade of decadence, while boho styles — including Penny Lane coats — have seen a major resurgence in the past year.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 26 Jan. 2025
  • On the runways, designers are using the color with billowy silks and gauzy organza in straight, classic silhouettes.
    Marilú Almaguer, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2025

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