thoroughfare

noun

thor·ough·fare | \ ˈthər-ə-ˌfer

, ˈthə-rə-\

Definition of thoroughfare

1 : a way or place for passage: such as

a : a street open at both ends

b : a main road

2a : passage, transit

b : the conditions necessary for passing through

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Examples of thoroughfare in a Sentence

one of the city's main thoroughfares

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For years, residents have fought to keep the narrow dirt road, which was a critical thoroughfare before the Civil War, from losing its historic character. — John D. Stoll, WSJ, "Facebook’s Hard Fall Shows the Pitfalls of Big Data," 28 July 2018 Known as Hunter Valley Station, the ranch is the only thoroughfare to Hawea Conservation Park. — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, "Here's What Matt Lauer Is Doing Now," 24 July 2018 Stores, banks, and businesses on high-end thoroughfares that boarded up their windows on Friday nights as though preparing for wartime are no longer doing so—and are now hoping that the season’s sales will make up for the preholiday closures. — Amy Verner, Vogue, "First Dior Men, Now Thom Browne—The Gilets Jaunes Are Impacting the Fall ’19 Paris Men’s Shows," 9 Jan. 2019 Like trash cans on major thoroughfares, bike share was not a recreational pastime but a public utility. — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, "Let’s organize the city outside our front door with as much care as we do our homes," 30 Aug. 2018 Russian forces without identifying insignia, along with military vehicles, began to appear on the thoroughfares of Crimea, home of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. — Jeré Longman, New York Times, "Stuck in Soccer Limbo, in the Shadow of the World Cup," 2 July 2018 Traffic moves fast on suburban thoroughfares, and few streets have designated bike lanes. — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, "Electric scooters in suburbs? Not gonna happen.," 29 June 2018 Now two corner residential sites that long had prosaic addresses on commercial thoroughfares—John Street and Fulton Street—have been reinvented with the poetry of a Dutch Street address. — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, "Developers of a Forgotten New York Alley Leverage History in Residential Influx," 13 June 2018 Kaminski would stop to help move cars that had flooded on main thoroughfares, clearing the roadways for emergency vehicles. — Lindsay Peyton, Houston Chronicle, "A Rosenberg man and his off-road rock crawler rescue flooded families," 18 May 2018

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