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

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Demonstrators Thursday shut down a major road in downtown Tel Aviv; a group of hostage family members handcuffed themselves together and blocked the gates during a meeting of the war cabinet. —Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024