thoroughfare
a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
a major road or highway.
a passage or way through: no thoroughfare.
a strait, river, or the like, affording passage.
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How to use thoroughfare in a sentence
The Park Service also said the Memorial Bridge and parts of major thoroughfares downtown, including Constitution, Pennsylvania and Independence avenues, would be blocked.
National Mall will be closed for nearly a week, Park Service announces | Justin Jouvenal | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostIts main thoroughfare, 3rd Street, cuts through both the business and entertainment districts in town.
Des Moines : Come and See All that The Capital City has to Offer! | LGBTQ-Editor | November 22, 2020 | No Straight NewsWe ducked into the woods behind our house in Vermont, crossed the neighbor’s field, and emerged onto a quiet gravel track that was once a thoroughfare to a copper mine.
In New York City, the Metro Transit Authority trialed a system on major thoroughfares with a reported rate of 0% accuracy.
There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewUnlike many clubs, the Stonewall Inn, which opened in March 1967, was on a main thoroughfare instead of a side street.
How the New York Media Covered The Stonewall Riots | LGBTQ-Editor | June 23, 2020 | No Straight News
Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, the artist Andy Golub painted the bodies of nude models.
“Libya in general is a major thoroughfare, the I-95 for foreign fighters into Syria from Africa,” the U.S. defense official said.
The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, long a major thoroughfare for illegal immigration, stands out as an outlier.
At Mexican Border, Four in Five Drug Busts Involve American Citizens | Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz, Tia Ghose | March 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Hebron, Israeli settlers occupy the main thoroughfare and commonly attack Palestinians.
Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellA cross-road from the Black Caon road would place them in the thoroughfare that ran past the house.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsMatt took the cross-road on two wheels, and, half a minute later, lurched into the main thoroughfare in the same way.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsBut in the great thoroughfare the tide of vehicles and foot passengers was perceptibly thinning.
A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull"It is a crowded thoroughfare," the man remarked nervously, looking up and down Shaftesbury Avenue.
The Double Four | E. Phillips Oppenheim
British Dictionary definitions for thoroughfare
/ (ˈθʌrəˌfɛə) /
a road from one place to another, esp a main road
way through or access: no thoroughfare
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