How to Use thoroughfare in a Sentence

thoroughfare

noun

• Lined with historic buildings, the Grand Canal is one of the main thoroughfares through the city.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The Dutch adopted it as their main thoroughfare up the island.
  — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Forbidden Drive, a wide, hard packed path that follows the creek, is the main thoroughfare through the park.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
• Ball Arena, where the Nuggets play, sits just off one of the city’s main thoroughfares, a short walk from downtown.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The highway connects the east and west sides of the Big Island, acting as a thoroughfare between the towns of Hilo and Kona.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
• There's even a Christmas tree lighting up the thoroughfare.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Most grocery stores and some others are set up in a grid, with the perimeter aisle being the largest and, in my opinion, the main thoroughfare that gets the right of way.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• Many of the locations are near freeways and along main thoroughfares.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
• The week before, a police inspector and his daughter were snatched by Sanon’s gang on one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• In the city of Adiyaman, the main thoroughfare felt like a construction site that sprawls out, block after block after block.
  — Gulsin Harman, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
• This thoroughfare follows the peaks and valleys of the Appalachian Mountains and is home to some of the most spectacular fall scenery in the world.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
• Ahead of the service, the crown jewels were transported to the cathedral in a procession through the Royal Mile, a thoroughfare that runs through the heart of the city’s Old Town.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
• Istanbul Street is the city’s most vibrant thoroughfare (or was, until the plague struck).
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• Today, the site at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip intersects with a major thoroughfare named for the Tropicana.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The official residence of Norway’s monarch stands at the top of Karl Johans gate, the main thoroughfare in Oslo.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• The Loftin residence sits near the bottom of a hill that crests off the subdivision’s main thoroughfare.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
• As our state has grown, what used to be rural roads have become major thoroughfares.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Dashes of navy, auburn and fire-engine red invite the viewer into the buzzing thoroughfare.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• India Street is the main thoroughfare, and Kettner Street is the place for new, popular restaurants.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
• On the plus side: This is one less Chick-fil-A at a strip mall spilling hungry Chick-fanatics in their cars out of the drive-thru and into the traffic lanes of city thoroughfares.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• One video shows a man playing an accordion in the middle of a major thoroughfare.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• Chris Gray, 50, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years, said as the county grows northward, more and more motorists are using the road as a thoroughfare.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The beach where my stepmother and I attempted to sunbathe turned out to be a thoroughfare for trucks hauling fish.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Drivers on the main thoroughfare, Michigan Avenue, pumped their car horns.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• While the red and blue tents along the main thoroughfare sell souvenirs and art pieces, the market has street food galore as well, like Laotian baguettes, laap, and green papaya salad.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
• The busy thoroughfare links Southeast Stark and Yamhill streets and is lined mostly with apartment complexes.
  — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• In downtown Fresno, for example, a thoroughfare road has been closed for eight years.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Shop Flagler Avenue Besides the beach, this central thoroughfare is where all the fun happens.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• That thoroughfare, straddling my New Jersey hometown of Edison and the neighboring Iselin, had been the site of my childhood in the early aughts.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
• In Beirut, Baghdad and Cairo, huge crowds descended on the main thoroughfares of these Arab capitals.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024