How to Use main/major road in a Sentence
main/major road
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Drive the park’s main road and then choose one of many hikes.
—Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
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There is a path through the area that leads to the main road.
—Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Yes, the park’s main road spans 28 miles and takes about an hour to travel by car.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
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Dimes were scattered across the parking lot and the main road nearby.
—Sara Smart, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
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The quickest way to the cavalry is the main road, but that’s no good.
—Oc Register, 20 June 2025
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Others who made it to their cars in time were able to get on the main road and start driving east.
—NBC news, 14 Oct. 2023
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The truck zigzagged through side streets for two hours to avoid Israeli tanks on the main road south.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
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With the main road blocked to the school, Clark parked and ran with other parents.
—Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
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The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
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Sometimes, the main road to the park closes so the military can test.
—Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Traffic has been diverted from the road, the main road in the village.
—Jenny Gross, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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When the vehicle stopped to turn onto the main road, her mirth vanished.
—Nnedi Okorafor, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
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In a full circle, the river again reached the fort, filling up the nearby main road.
—Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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From the main road to the gate, things got ugly, with 30 minute to an hour waits to get into the ranch.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
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Santa Teresa has one main road that runs parallel to the beach.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022
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But the area of the derailment still looked like a large cleanup site this month, with truck traffic jamming a main road.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
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On the main road, several miles from our house, the snow berm had deer feet and other body parts sticking out of it.
—The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
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The block-long alley links the main road with another narrow strip packed with bars and trendy restaurants.
—Adam Schreck, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
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Enjoy the carriage ride down the Avonlea main road, which dips and winds as good rural roads should.
—Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
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Whiteley sometimes cut north through the creek bed to hitchhike on the main road nearby, Spruill said.
—Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
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The drive can be slow, even on this main road to Lake Shkodër on the Kosovan border.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2023
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Golfers watched as the vehicles winded their way toward the exit and onto the main road.
—Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
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The main road to Lahaina continues to be closed down to tourists on Thursday.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
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The main road bridge has a hole in it, and the surface of the smaller bridge that runs alongside it also appears to be damaged.
—Ivan Nechepurenko, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
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At first, Phoenix was just one mile long, a half-mile wide, and had Washington Street as the main road.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
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Greene Street, the main road through the heart of town, is the only paved street in the municipality.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2025
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To the right of the main road, campers ages 13 to 16 have pitched tents and are prepping dinner to enjoy outside.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
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Aros and Lisbjerg were closely connected by the old main road, which ran from the Viking city to the manor.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
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But a strike on the main road between Khan Younis and Rafah stopped most movement between the two cities.
—Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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The building began as an ordinary wooden structure on the old Bayshore Road, the main road out of the city.
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
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