How to Use avenue in a Sentence

avenue

noun
  • We drove down the avenue.
  • We plan to pursue all available avenues to get our message to the public.
  • They have closed off that avenue of discussion.
  • Come spring, stand on the west side of 57th and Fifth and stare straight across the avenue.
    Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The draft would make sense as the avenue for that outlook.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The crowd advanced down an avenue lined with cafés and juice bars.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • With so many avenues to break into the biz, why choose AFI?
    Malina Saval, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Chopard, Swarovski, and Tiffany have all opened boutiques on the avenue.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Only a couple of long avenues left to make it to The Murphy.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
  • On the other side of the avenue is the police department.
    Tim Arango Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • This is the first avenue that folks are going to be able to participate and get the film.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But make any of those moves, and no follow-up avenue for Durant or Mitchell.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Their roster is old and has no clear avenues to improve.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Another avenue would be to spur from within a spark that might get the ball rolling.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The property is next to Lowe's and across the avenue from Veteran's Park.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024
  • For instance, an avenue, a historic district, a park and a creek bear his name.
    Sonny Rhodes, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry boutique was — and remains — one of the hallmarks of avenue.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This is the first avenue for the replacement of our democracy.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • There was a fire truck and a police car on the far side of the avenue, and passersby looking back in the direction of our building.
    Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The lounge is located on D Street between 6th and 7th avenues.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • The 2022 law opened up new avenues for cities to fund infrastructure projects.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But the tax-credit transfers open a new avenue for many of those same companies to pay less.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Without a Paul trade and without Thompson, the Warriors aren’t good enough to compete in the West and don’t have clear avenues to get there.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 June 2024
  • Where the schizophrenic tries to create a new avenue for thought or movement, the police are there to put up a stop sign.
    Marco Roth, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • May 9 that his car was scratched in the village parking lot at Ashland and Burlington avenues.
    Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • The crime had occurred on the avenue, where the victim, leaving her night shift at an IHOP, was heading to the subway that would take her home.
    Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Buenos Aires, built along the lines of Paris, has a city center of neoclassical public buildings, wide avenues, and grand parks.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • My morning drive – the streets are peaceful on Thanksgiving mornings — took me to the intersection of St. Clair and Cretin avenues.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2024

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