trunk road
British a main road, esp one that is suitable for heavy vehicles
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How to use trunk road in a sentence
For more on National Public Radio's recent journey along Pakistan's Grand trunk road, click here.
The one cleared the river, the other was hanging men on nearly every tree that lined the Grand trunk road.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe passage to and fro of rebel detachments had converted the Grand trunk road into a wilderness.
The Red Year | Louis TracyPleasant as novel were the incidents of our march eastward along that most excellent highway, the Grand trunk road.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonAt the extreme right of the Ridge, overlooking the trunk road, there was a strong piquet with a heavy battery.
Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Meantime we are to march down the trunk road, halting here to-morrow.
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India | W. S. R. Hodson
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