service road
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of service road
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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A few months later, a dead lamb was discovered near a service road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
There were also plans for an underground service road to separate VIP visitors from refuse collections, a new staff entrance, a cafe and "recreation facilities" in the basement.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
The plaza, once an underused service road near 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, was redesigned in 2012 as a public square.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
The newspaper reported that police were still searching for the driver of a car that had struck 22-year-old Tonya Dawn Hughes a week earlier on a service road near a major highway in Oklahoma City.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
At Clara’s command they turned onto a service road and continued among birches and onion fields until she ordered the driver to pull up along a clump of underbrush.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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