walkways

plural of walkway

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of walkways Stay off of beaches and coastal walkways, roads, and structures. — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026 Irrigation water may also become a greater concern when walkways have inadequate drainage or landscaping directs water toward pedestrian areas. — Christyne D. Santisteban, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 There are ramps throughout, including the walkways to the beach and the docks over the water. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026 Stitching involves widening pedestrian walkways and adding bike lanes. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026 The crab was sidling along one of the outside walkways, where the thick, humid air lingered close to the ground. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 Localized structure damage is possible, as is shallow seawater flooding over low-lying beach walkways, parking lots and roads, according to the weather service. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 The conservative activist had been debating students before a crowd of thousands in an outdoor courtyard surrounded by tall buildings and elevated walkways on the campus in Orem, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City. — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026 Neglected outdoor spaces like dead grass or cracked walkways can make a bad first impression. — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 21 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkways
Noun
  • Low-lying roadways are likely to be flooded, requiring barricades.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Less than one percent of Houston’s roadways, for example, fell within the sight pictures of the city’s nearly 4,000 ALPRs in June 2024.
    — Rafael A. Mangual, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Eight venues are interconnected by hidden passageways, secret entrances, and whimsical performances.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Overland routes and the Caspian Sea conspire against any attempt to hermetically seal Iran, even if the capacity of these passageways cannot compensate for the closing of naval routes and dwindling air links.
    — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Most mountain roads should remain wet, but slick conditions are possible above 9,000 feet, especially after dark.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Critics also worried that an unplanned surge in housing could strain schools, roads and other infrastructure.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The resulting long lineups snake out from working gas stations into the main thoroughfares of Moscow and other Russian cities.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Rancho Cordova was awarded more than $3 million in grants from a local agency for two road improvement projects on major city thoroughfares.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In Chile in 2024, several hundred demonstrators burned tires and blocked coastal highways and railway tracks to protest the early closure of the fishing season, a move partly driven by overfishing tied to fishmeal.
    — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The red dye also allows a road inspector to detect whether a trucker is evading taxes by using the fuel on highways.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

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“Walkways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkways. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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