How to Use service road in a Sentence

service road

noun
  • The suspect left the scene in a dark blue Kia hatchback north bound on the east service road.
    Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Part of the lounge juts out from the rest of the Larson Center as a cantilever above the service road.
    Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Police said the victim sped away but crashed on the service road.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Find parking on the west side of Rush Creek Road, then cross the road to follow an old service road to the top of the 400-foot bluff.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Run done on a rolling dirt service road one exit south of Flagstaff.
    Ben Bruce, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • More good news is that all service roads and trails are open in the watershed.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Yu drove her truck down a service road and walked out onto North Beach.
    Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • There is a short stretch where the trail follows a power line service road and, at the top of a hill, peels off and heads down to the Rio Nambe.
    George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2013
  • The plane came to rest inverted in a clearing about 75 yards from a service road.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
  • Medina used a narrow service road to drive to the park.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2024
  • For a bigger hike, start at Deer Flat and head up a service road called Highland Trail.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • So, the pair of Diboll natives drove up a forest service road and parked around 9:30 a.m.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Traveling north across the overpass and turning right to enter the service road at the yield sign the road is like a rub board.
    Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The man crossed the Bridge Street service road, jumped over the guardrail and ran into traffic on I-30 westbound, police said.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The water main break buckled the service road and left piles of sand and debris caked over part of a nearby sidewalk.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Continue to the Loop 610 service road, then re-enter the westbound lanes.
    Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
  • More than one-third of the trail has been built in sections over the years, including, in recent years, the section in Calumet Park, which runs along a service road.
    Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • After sunset, some threw water bottles at the line of police on the I-65 service road.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, 13 June 2020
  • These heroes on behalf of half-shells fanned out along a dirt service road and began to march across the scorched earth in search of reptile remains.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Webb said he was instructed to follow a second car to the neighborhood and to park on the highway service road.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Drivers would enter and exit the property using a service road that wraps around the top of the tunnel.
    Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • The south span will carry a service road replacing S.R. 46, a path for cycling and walking and decks for outlooks.
    Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • By the time firefighters arrived, flames had formed a tunnel of fire, rising up on either side of a service road that runs up to the power lines.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Visitors take a lift to the adventure park, but there is a service road to it, and it is believed the man drove to the park to enter after hours, Vallario said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Police said protesters began to block lanes of a service road.
    Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Open: Parking, staging areas, trails and service roads at 55 parks.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The area was full of downed trees, debris, and stumps, barricading the last 200 yards to the service road where a helicopter could possibly pick him up.
    Benjamin Alva Polley, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2022
  • When Ivanoff's body was discovered in bushes by the side of a service road outside of town — she had been shot in the back of the head at point blank range — Habros decided to call police.
    Victoria McKenzie, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When Ivanoff’s body was discovered in bushes by the side of a service road outside of town — she had been shot in the back of the head at point blank range — Habros decided to call police.
    Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The street’s last major renovation took place in 1991, getting rid of service roads perpetually cluttered with parked cars.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019

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