main/major road
noun
: a road that is commonly used and that goes through the main part of a city, town, etc.
Examples of main/major road in a Sentence
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There will be an Avenue of Flags where flags will be placed along the main road through Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
Her car, which was stuck on a boulder in the desert about three miles from any major road, was discovered more than a week later.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
The storm forced the closure of the main road to Mammoth Mountain ski resort, US 395, for hours Saturday due to whiteout conditions, according to the California Department of Transportation.
—Susannah Cullinane, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
On Monday, in support of the Paris siege, agricultural workers shut down a major road outside Brussels and access to the port in Hamburg.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Mission, a main road from Interstate 5 to the ocean, was changed into a two-lane, one-way westbound street from Clementine Street to Coast Highway.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
To qualify as ready, a major road must have at least four DCFCs every 50 miles.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024
In the evenings, there’s little light outside of a handful of orange street lamps illuminating the main road.
—Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
Residents lined Fritch’s main road, Broadway Street, to pay their respects as a series of fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles escorted a silver hearse.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
Her car, which was stuck on a boulder in the desert about three miles from any major road, was discovered more than a week later.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
The storm forced the closure of the main road to Mammoth Mountain ski resort, US 395, for hours Saturday due to whiteout conditions, according to the California Department of Transportation.
—Susannah Cullinane, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
On Monday, in support of the Paris siege, agricultural workers shut down a major road outside Brussels and access to the port in Hamburg.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Mission, a main road from Interstate 5 to the ocean, was changed into a two-lane, one-way westbound street from Clementine Street to Coast Highway.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
To qualify as ready, a major road must have at least four DCFCs every 50 miles.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024
In the evenings, there’s little light outside of a handful of orange street lamps illuminating the main road.
—Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
Residents lined Fritch’s main road, Broadway Street, to pay their respects as a series of fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles escorted a silver hearse.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Main/major road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/main%2Fmajor%20road. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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