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Recent Examples of boulevard This also follows Barcelona residents taking matters into their own hands in July 2024, when 3,000 residents protested against tourism by squirting visitors with water guns on Las Ramblas boulevard. Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025 The former Probation Department lot offers a hideaway bounded by Crenshaw and Obama boulevards and the Expo Line and is sealed off from a row of apartment buildings to its west by a tall wall and shrubbery. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025 At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2025 Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulevard
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Noun
  • Once the attack was over, the victims were helped by people on the street.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
  • Fourteen bullet casings and blood were on the street.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Whether along highways or at the entrance of a theme park, lush greenery reinforces Florida’s reputation as a vacation destination.
    Tal Coley, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025
  • Trains aren’t running, many planes are delayed or canceled and a stretch of highway is closed because of sinkholes that — who knows? — might lead to a better kind of hell.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The two facilities take up a city block along St. Charles Avenue, the thoroughfare famous for its streetcars, Mardi Gras parades and Queen Anne mansions.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Investigation continues The Jet Set is one of the country’s most high-profile venues, close to the busy El Malecón thoroughfare in the heart of Santo Domingo.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The match concluded a wild road trip that saw Sporting play three road matches in eight days.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2025
  • Two months ago at least 24 people died in a round of storms that swelled creeks and submerged roads.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The freeways were empty except for the gardeners that were going to work.
    Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
  • The Orleans County Sheriff's Office on Friday night released security video of the extraordinary escape, which shows the inmates sprinting out of the prison and then traversing the freeway.
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • In a popular TikTok video posted April 21, Becky Levin Navarro is seen walking on a sidewalk near Austin’s MoPac expressway after a Waymo ride gone wrong.
    Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Taking a bus or driving the 435-mile route is also an option.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Originally Published: May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM EDT Most Popular Most Popular Property of the week: Striking historic home along the Connecticut river Parking crunch looms at major CT airport amid route expansion.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Sidney’s Rainbows is also partnering with the national group, Families for Safe Streets, in creating a state chapter that would provide resources and the opportunity for families affected by roadway tragedies to advocate for safer streets.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
  • Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2025

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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boulevard. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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