through streets

noun

plural of through street
as in side streets

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for through streets
  1. streets
  2. highways
  3. roads
  4. roadways
  5. arteries
  6. drives
  7. boulevards
  8. routes
Noun
  • The Basij run a nationwide network of volunteers who maintain a presence in the streets, government offices and cultural centers, seeking to ensure loyalty and ideological purity for Iran’s theocracy.
    — Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • This location is more residential, with quieter streets and approachable local trattorias, but offers several architecturally significant palaces and one of the city's oldest churches, the 11th-century San Zan Degola.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Key Biscayne The Village of Key Biscayne strictly prohibits all micromobility devices on streets, highways, sidewalks, bicycle paths, multiuse paths and trails, beaches and dunes unless otherwise authorized.
    — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Two men were sentenced Thursday for staging crashes on New York City highways to get fraudulent insurance payouts.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • Nepal’s Department of Roads says at least 19 motorable bridges and around 40 kilometers of roads have also been damaged or washed away.
    — Milad Haghani, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Rescue efforts, still in their first stages, have been hampered by the fact that the floodwaters have washed away entire roads.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • For Pittsburghers, the project targets one of the city's most recognizable and heavily traveled roadways.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The nature of the structure — with roadways cantilevered out under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — precludes replacing one lane at a time, city officials told reporters last week.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of roadways
Noun
  • Towering waves generated by intense Pacific storm systems, their heights amplified by El Niño, could erode parts of the fragile coastline and shut down crucial coastal transportation arteries.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The mother explained that the arteries from Makaia’s heart to her lungs are still the same size as a newborn’s, which is causing her heart to fail.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of arteries
Noun
  • The company and the team will also organize school supply drives, holiday events, youth camps, and football clinics throughout the year.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Panthers also kept the first-team out of the end zone in one of their two drives that started in the red zone.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of drives
Noun
  • Then the musical group collated the various streets, roads, places, drives, boulevards and cardinal directions into 53 seconds of gold.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is circulating photos of 27 people seen earlier this month at the auto supply business at Atlantic and Olympic boulevards.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of boulevards
Noun
  • That can mean choosing a better location for construction, alternate routes, backup power, improved early warning and financial tools such as insurance to speed recovery, Narasimhan said.
    — Victoria Milko, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Major transit routes through the country closed entirely as the state fragmented into competing zones of control.
    — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of routes
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