crawler lane

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noun

a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles

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Words nearby crawler lane

crawfish, Crawford, Crawfordsville, crawl, crawler, crawler lane, crawler track, Crawley, crawling, crawling peg, crawlspace

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How to use crawler lane in a sentence

This week the Church of England named the Reverend Libby Lane as its first female bishop.
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Former cadet Lane said he only saw Jackson attempt to catch one of them.
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Down a one-lane gravel road sits the house Burton left seven years ago.
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Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play lovers—life partners, really.
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Cars swarm dangerously around them on this two-lane road carved, literally, into the side of a chain of mountains.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The order of meals at Lane End was somewhat peculiar even then, and would now be almost unique.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The main entrance is in the centre of the St. Martin's Lane front, and consists of a central roadway for carts and wagons, 15ft.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
They walked silently down the lane together, Gilbert sullen and mortified, Dorothy pitying but resolute.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
Water Street, formerly Water Lane, had a brook running down one side of it when houses were first built there.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Mis' Calvert, she saw you in a lane, or somethin', and fetched you back to that Baltimore city where the both of you lived.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond