Examples of boulevard in a Sentence
the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Kin Thai’s menu tours the streets of Thailand, sampling food from stands on Bangkok’s major boulevards to bike-riding vendors in the rural countryside.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2025
Across town, around 100 people gathered peacefully at the intersection of Harbor and MacArthur boulevards around 6:30 p.m. to protest the immigration enforcement actions that took place earlier in the day.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 9 June 2025
The story is told that a delegation from Jersey City, New Jersey, who’d come to see George Kessler’s parks and boulevard innovations toured the bridge shortly before it was completed.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Kin Thai’s menu tours the streets of Thailand, sampling food from stands on Bangkok’s major boulevards to bike-riding vendors in the rural countryside.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2025
Across town, around 100 people gathered peacefully at the intersection of Harbor and MacArthur boulevards around 6:30 p.m. to protest the immigration enforcement actions that took place earlier in the day.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 9 June 2025
The story is told that a delegation from Jersey City, New Jersey, who’d come to see George Kessler’s parks and boulevard innovations toured the bridge shortly before it was completed.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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