side road

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Recent Examples of side road During filming, truck and commercial vehicles will detour on Red Top Road between the city of Graham and State Highway 114, while non-commercial vehicles will be diverted to side roads. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024 Work continued in the county to clear trees, debris and downed power lines, and a number of side roads remained closed, Gaub said. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 9 May 2024 Buzbee asked the deputy if a person could have parked on a side road. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024 Hazardous conditions on side roads were cited by many of the county's seven public school districts as the reason for closing for the fourth day in a row today due to the inclement weather. The Sentinel-Record, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for side road 
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Noun
  • The parking lot was full, and so were the side streets.
    Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The three-dimensional puzzle box of its plans and ceiling heights is unique in American architectural history, with the advent of the setback aspect on the side street — Candela’s first use of this device — ensuring the building’s significance externally as well.
    David Netto, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Steward’s walk was the real deal: a four-hour amble along secondary roads past farmsteads and olive groves, the undulating terrain fanning out around us on all sides.
    Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Tuesday morning, the state’s road closure report included 579 – three on interstates, 38 federal highways, 58 state roads, and 480 secondary roads.
    Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Rounding out the top three is Switzerland, which also has a very low road traffic death rate of 2.2 per 100,000 people, low fuel and EV charging costs, and a very high road quality score of 6.3 out of 7.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • In Al-Nabi Chit, unlike many nearby places that have become ghost towns, the streets bustle with men, women, and children.
    Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Rich Graeter, Graeter's Ice Cream Company president and CEO Louis and Regina Graeter started making vanilla ice cream in a metal bucket on the streets of Cincinnati after the Civil War.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • These plans outline how a forest will be managed — like logging parameters, species protections, restoration projects and road maintenance.
    April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Smith also did not dress for road games last month against the Winnipeg Jets, Los Angeles Kings, and the Utah Hockey Club.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024

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“Side road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20road. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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