greenbeltin a sentence
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The Barton Creek Greenbelt in Austin Texas is shaped more like a "V" than a circular belt.
greenbelt = a large area of protected parks or rural land near a city
- She was drifting toward the outer edge of the greenbelt.† (source)
- I mean, they do have the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins, to say nothing of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.† (source)
- In the formerly protected greenbelt around London a ring of new cities was being built, cities that would be able to accommodate more people again than London itself.† (source)
- It wasn't impressive—just a swampy creek like the one that meandered through the Fenway greenbelt.† (source)
- Perfect for the kids, their new two-story home was on a cul-de-sac and backed a greenbelt.† (source)
- When they reached the greenbelt, though, he forced himself to look at her.† (source)
- They weren't far from the edge of the greenbelt now.† (source)
- The greenbelt was the best place to travel without being seen, and a good ride as well.† (source)
- A tingle passed through her as they left the greenbelt.† (source)
- The low, dirt-colored buildings at the edge of the city, past the greenbelt and among the factories.† (source)
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- Since I was flying solo, I went all the way around the greenbelt first to get them off track.† (source)
- Rumors began to circulate of a tightening cordon being put in place, a cordon moving through those of London's boroughs with fewer doors, and hence fewer new arrivals, sending those unable to prove their legal residence to great holding camps that had been built in the city's greenbelt, and concentrating those who remained in pockets of shrinking size.† (source)
- REFUGEES HAD OCCUPIED many of the open places in the city, pitching tents in the greenbelts between roads, erecting lean-tos next to the boundary walls of houses, sleeping rough on sidewalks and in the margins of streets.† (source)
- They headed downriver, across Uglyville, over the greenbelt and farther out to the transport ring, where the factories stuck their heads aboveground.† (source)
- They crept back to the greenbelt and reached the river before the sky had even shown a sliver of pink.† (source)
- The fourth night in ugly exile she took her board up into the greenbelt, staying at the edge of town.† (source)
- Tally looked down as they soared over Crumblyville, skipping the greenbelt to head straight back toward the river.† (source)
- She raced David halfway around the greenbelt, until the lights of the big hospital sat directly across the river from them.† (source)
- Reaching the greenbelt, they turned back the way they'd come, neither of them speaking, concentrating instead on navigating through the trees.† (source)
- The greenbelt would be crowded.† (source)
- They'd flown across the greenbelt on the far side of town, then out to the transport ring, the industrial zone between the middle-pretty suburbs and outer Crumblyville.† (source)
- Behind them the spires of New Pretty Town rose from the center of town, and around them was the greenbelt, a swath of forest that separated the middle and the late pretties from the youngsters.† (source)
- As darkness fell, Tally and David reached the white water, and they passed through the greenbelt at the very moment the lights winked off in Uglyville.† (source)
- But back then her world had been pathetically tiny: a few parks, the path to littlie school, one corner of the greenbelt where she would sneak in to spy on uglies.† (source)
- When the wagon reached the line where the woolly backs had gone down out of sight Milly saw a slope, covered with spreading buffalo, that ended in a winding green belt of trees.† (source)
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