Examples of boulevard in a Sentence
the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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Soviet-era apartment blocks line leafy boulevards and glass towers cluster in the financial district.
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Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Large stretches of Wilkinson and West boulevards are highlighted as areas of concern on the network.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025
And while the city has installed wider lanes on a number of avenues in Manhattan and this summer debuted a 16-foot-wide boulevard on 31st Avenue in Astoria, these lanes are still not the norm.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
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Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Large stretches of Wilkinson and West boulevards are highlighted as areas of concern on the network.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025
And while the city has installed wider lanes on a number of avenues in Manhattan and this summer debuted a 16-foot-wide boulevard on 31st Avenue in Astoria, these lanes are still not the norm.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 5 Oct. 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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