dual carriageway

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Fox News, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
Noun
  • And Microsoft embraced neutrality after heavy unionA Since the NLRB will be weak for quite a while but a new study by The Center for Work And Democracy at Arizona State University identifies workers can influence a high road economy that go beyond traditional collective bargaining.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the former president didn’t stay on that high road for long.
    Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The vision of the new company is to use the superhighway to bring different rules or different data sources to help the user in their document creation or communication.
    Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • By acting like a superhighway for ion signals, graphene ensures that these signals reach the electronic system efficiently, allowing lithium levels to be measured quickly and reliably, and marking a significant step forward in sensor performance.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The 58-acre site and its 15-acre ring road are expected to be listed for sale in early 2026.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, while many visitors like to take in the otherworldly sights of this mystical country by driving its ring road, the best, and easily most relaxing way, is to explore everything Iceland has to offer by sea.
    Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The crash occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 10, on the M57 motorway in Knowsley, a village in England, the Merseyside Police said in a news release.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During the riots, Hamida witnesses a girl paraded naked on the streets.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • City officials estimated the revenue from Disney parks attendance and parking would generate $108 million to $164 million annually toward the city’s day-to-day operations, such as providing police and fire services, operating libraries and maintaining city streets.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With the improvements to the interstate come a slew of long-term closures and traffic impacts.
    Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One of three monkeys that escaped after a truck hauling 21 of the animals from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi interstate has been found, according to authorities.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • While the missile could, in theory, bypass missile defenses, each test risks radioactive fallout if the reactor disintegrates during flight or on impact.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That screening was worth the wait for some motorists trying to avoid 17th Street traffic before the bypass opened, but now agents won’t need to check your ID or open your trunk to let you through.
    Rafael Olmeda, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Located just off Georgia’s southeastern coast, the island is accessible by a causeway from the mainland.
    Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Located across a causeway from downtown Miami and overlooking Biscayne Bay, the park was beloved by those who grew up visiting the landmark, but plagued by persistent animal welfare complaints.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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