main/major road
noun
: a road that is commonly used and that goes through the main part of a city, town, etc.
Examples of main/major road in a Sentence
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Mission, a main road from Interstate 5 to the ocean, was changed into a two-lane, one-way westbound street from Clementine Street to Coast Highway.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
To qualify as ready, a major road must have at least four DCFCs every 50 miles.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024
In the evenings, there’s little light outside of a handful of orange street lamps illuminating the main road.
—Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
Residents lined Fritch’s main road, Broadway Street, to pay their respects as a series of fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles escorted a silver hearse.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Demonstrators Thursday shut down a major road in downtown Tel Aviv; a group of hostage family members handcuffed themselves together and blocked the gates during a meeting of the war cabinet.
—Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
In Delmas, billows of black smoke from burning tires blanketed the sky while a major road was blocked by an oversize truck.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
After burying her middle-aged son in the yard in front of his home because there was no way to remove the body after he was killed in an artillery strike, the 75-year-old eventually left the village of Popivka on foot, walking across fields to get to the main road.
—Andy Carey, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
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
Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
To qualify as ready, a major road must have at least four DCFCs every 50 miles.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024
In the evenings, there’s little light outside of a handful of orange street lamps illuminating the main road.
—Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
Residents lined Fritch’s main road, Broadway Street, to pay their respects as a series of fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles escorted a silver hearse.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Demonstrators Thursday shut down a major road in downtown Tel Aviv; a group of hostage family members handcuffed themselves together and blocked the gates during a meeting of the war cabinet.
—Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
In Delmas, billows of black smoke from burning tires blanketed the sky while a major road was blocked by an oversize truck.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
After burying her middle-aged son in the yard in front of his home because there was no way to remove the body after he was killed in an artillery strike, the 75-year-old eventually left the village of Popivka on foot, walking across fields to get to the main road.
—Andy Carey, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
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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