How to Use thoroughfare in a Sentence

thoroughfare

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• No visit to the town is complete without a stroll on King Street, the pedestrian thoroughfare that leads down to the water.
  — Madeline Weinfield, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
• The Musée du Quai Branly is a long ark of a building perched over a garden, whose foliage screens the museum from its busy namesake thoroughfare on the banks of the Seine.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
• Fences have been built with log climbers that offer escape routes from busy roads, and two years ago Brisbane City Council built a bridge over a thoroughfare near a wildlife reserve.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024