rest area

Example Sentences

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After a gruelling 36-hour shift, she had fallen asleep in a seminar room due to the lack of a designated rest area.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

There seemed to be little worry about the impending storm among some truckers in the Whitewater rest area, off the 10 Freeway, in Riverside County.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2023

My brother desperately needed a rest area, but we were nowhere near one.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

A car traveling on I-70 when the crash happened was damaged, with the driver making it to a rest area farther down the road.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Late in the night I pulled into a rest area, had a hamburger at the great lunch counter that never closes, and walked Charley on the close-clipped grass.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck