thoroughfare

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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

Recent Examples on the Web The original quick-casual eatery sits on Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s famous and main thoroughfare. — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 May 2021 Used needles littering the sidewalk are common, even in heavily trafficked areas like Southwest Broadway, downtown’s main thoroughfare. — oregonlive, 14 May 2021 The new building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, also was to be the keystone of Grand Avenue, a downtown thoroughfare that Mr. Broad had long wanted to turn into Los Angeles’s answer to Fifth Avenue and the Champs-Élysées. — Washington Post, 1 May 2021 On this street, Boca Chica’s only residential thoroughfare, 1960s Americana meets the new space race. — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2021 This trail connects to the Peavine, a wide thoroughfare along the eastern bank popular with bikers, joggers and stroller-pushing moms. — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2021 While the three closest archways to the right-field foul pole will be closed, the Giants aren’t shutting the portwalk because it’s a public thoroughfare — social distancing will be enforced by police and security. — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021 Redevelopment in downtown Palm Springs has been through seemingly endless revisions since the end of the last century, when an enormous shopping mall gobbling up a big chunk of Palm Canyon Drive, the town’s primary thoroughfare, went belly up. — Christopher Knight Art Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021 Jalaal stopped the trio at the corner of a broad thoroughfare, where the rumble of cargo movers masked their conversation. — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 May 2021

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