- a variation of thruway.
throughway
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Continued disruptions in the waterway, the throughway for a fifth of the world’s oil, could pull global oil inventories down to dangerous levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Chanting “the country is on fire,” they lit bonfires on Tel Aviv’s main highway, closing the throughway and many others throughout the country for hours.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
They lit bonfires on Tel Aviv’s main highway, closing the throughway and many others throughout the country for hours.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
Though Route 66 no longer runs all the way from Chicago to Santa Monica, long stretches of the historic throughway and its roadside attractions and mom-and-pop stores have been preserved just off I-40.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Well, he got me out of town by a route which, if I could have remembered it, let alone followed it, would have made the path into the Labyrinth at Knossos seem like a throughway.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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