surface road
noun
a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
Origin of surface road
1An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Words Nearby surface road
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How to use surface road in a sentence
Navigating the surface roads to the park doesn’t go smoothly.
When twilight was done, he'd crossed to another surface road and was headed back toward the city.
The Hate Disease | William Fitzgerald JenkinsMonticello is open to the public and may be reached by a hard surface road leading out of Charlottesville.
Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia | Carrie Hunter WillisA mile or so, and there was another hard-surface road branching off.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald JenkinsWe five pedestrians faced some heavy traffic on a surface road.
Breaking Point | James E. Gunn
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