How to Use avenue in a Sentence
avenue
noun- We drove down the avenue.
- We plan to pursue all available avenues to get our message to the public.
- They have closed off that avenue of discussion.
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Come spring, stand on the west side of 57th and Fifth and stare straight across the avenue.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
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The draft would make sense as the avenue for that outlook.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2024
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The stores close, the schools close, the traffic on the avenue dwindles to a sporadic whoosh.
—Hana Schank, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
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The crowd advanced down an avenue lined with cafés and juice bars.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
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With so many avenues to break into the biz, why choose AFI?
—Malina Saval, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
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Chopard, Swarovski, and Tiffany have all opened boutiques on the avenue.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
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Only a couple of long avenues left to make it to The Murphy.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
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The pair, who met while working at the Collins on second avenue, wanted the bar to feel like home.
—al, 6 Aug. 2021
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On the other side of the avenue is the police department.
—Tim Arango Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
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This is the first avenue that folks are going to be able to participate and get the film.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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But the Bane trade gives Memphis an avenue to give Jackson even more on that deal and lock him in long term.
—Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
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The Lee statue was the only monument on the avenue that was state-owned.
—Sean Jones, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
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But make any of those moves, and no follow-up avenue for Durant or Mitchell.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
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Their roster is old and has no clear avenues to improve.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
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Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
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The main avenue would take Pace on a journey up the draft board to select a quarterback.
—Amanda Kaschube, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2021
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Another avenue would be to spur from within a spark that might get the ball rolling.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
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The store shut down, but the Oldhams came in to work on improving a new avenue of sales: the internet.
—Lukas Flippo, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2021
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The property is next to Lowe's and across the avenue from Veteran's Park.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024
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For instance, an avenue, a historic district, a park and a creek bear his name.
—Sonny Rhodes, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
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And the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry boutique was — and remains — one of the hallmarks of avenue.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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And then, the discovery of the 46 chromosomes came along and opened these new avenues of research.
—Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2025
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This is the first avenue for the replacement of our democracy.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
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There was a fire truck and a police car on the far side of the avenue, and passersby looking back in the direction of our building.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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The lounge is located on D Street between 6th and 7th avenues.
—Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
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This is the correct avenue because regulation should evolve alongside the technology, not try to freeze it in place.
—Chris Groshong, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
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