thruway
or through·way
[ throo-wey ]
noun
a limited-access toll highway providing a means of direct transportation between distant areas for high-speed automobile traffic.
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How to use thruway in a sentence
Ten bands of color—each five separated by a narrow clear strip, detailed the thruway.
Code Three | Rick RaphaelThen a five-day resupply and briefing period and back onto another thruway.
Code Three | Rick RaphaelAnd as far as thruway traffic control and authority was concerned, state and national boundaries actually didn't exist.
Code Three | Rick RaphaelThree minutes later, they emerged from the tunnel into the red patrol lane of Continental thruway 26-West.
Code Three | Rick RaphaelThen they hit the thruway—nine of them packed into the jalopy—the oldest one just seventeen years old.
Code Three | Rick Raphael
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