How to Use thoroughfare in a Sentence

thoroughfare

noun
Definition of thoroughfarenext
Synonyms for thoroughfarenext
  • The East Side thoroughfare is home to one of the busiest on-street bike lanes in the city, as well as the city’s busiest bus route, the M15.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Lined with historic buildings, the Grand Canal is one of the main thoroughfares through the city.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Along the city’s main thoroughfare, the two worlds collide.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The stretch is a busy thoroughfare in the neighborhood.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Pedestrians would have a thoroughfare to walk to the beach.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2022
  • The road is a major thoroughfare through Brooklyn and Parma to the south.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 2 Aug. 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
  • In peak season, the main thoroughfare, on the north side of the Bow River, is crammed with visitors.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Either way, tens of thousands of vehicles are now double- and triple-parked on the many of the city’s thoroughfares.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There wasn't any railroad in sight, but there was Broadway—the city's main thoroughfare.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The security forces shot them dead in the middle of the thoroughfare.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Wright went to Oxford Street, a thoroughfare that has been the center of the city’s gay night-life scene since the late seventies.
    — Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • The east-west thoroughfare goes across Carlsbad from the beach to College Boulevard.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The main thoroughfare into the mountains, Doyle Grade, acted like a fire chute with its canyon-like sides.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
  • The main thoroughfare along Columbus Drive was busy early and often as soon as the first acts hit the mainstages.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • There's even a Christmas tree lighting up the thoroughfare.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Lines of cars formed on the side of a main thoroughfare as locals waited for permission to check on their homes.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • One, the 82nd Avenue corridor, is where two men were struck and killed while crossing the thoroughfare in April.
    — oregonlive, 10 July 2021
  • Many of the locations are near freeways and along main thoroughfares.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The main thoroughfare looks almost identical to 2014, save for a Boys & Girls Club and a health clinic.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Just off a main thoroughfare in Barcelona, Spain, countless passersby walked over a set of 600-year-old ruins.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • Go to a hotel, park or shopping area that’s nestled up against a busy thoroughfare.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
  • On either side of this thoroughfare were streets lined with houses and shops, some two or three stories high.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The iconic, story-high Julius fountain in the main thoroughfare is drained, with no sign of construction.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The hotel is a few short, walkable blocks from Avenida Paulista, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, bustling with pedestrians, a botanical garden, and many shops and restaurants.
    — Dalya Benor, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2024

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