Definition of parkway
: a broad landscaped thoroughfare
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The plans are for a new kind of unified pavement along the mall, planter beds and a ribbon of brick that will create a parkway for buildings along the length of the mall.
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The shooting occurred at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday along a popular stretch of the parkway from Virginia State Route 24 to U.S. 220.
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Charter buses, tractor trailers, school buses and other tall vehicles are prohibited from the parkways.
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David Candelaria said that the driver was not from the area and not aware of the parkway’s restrictions against commercial vehicles, reported the Washington Post.
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The incident has attracted a large police presence at the 600 block of the parkway, during the drug bust.
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The parkway was closed for over an hour, which caused delays on area roadways, including Connecticut Avenue.
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Each morning in Sacramento, two crews of approximately a dozen people don bright yellow shirts and spend four hours roaming streets and parkways around the shelter, armed with rakes, shovels, brooms and wheelbarrows.
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On the other side of the parkway, townhouses, townhouses and then some single family houses here.
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First Known Use of parkway
1875
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Definition of parkway for English Language Learners
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: a wide road with trees and grass along the sides and often in the middle
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