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Recent Examples of thruway Several people have been hospitalized after a huge motor pile-up involving at least 25 vehicles on a major thruway in Maryland Saturday morning. Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024 Interstate 10 and Highway 11 near New Orleans were closed in the morning on Tuesday and Wednesday due to poor visibility on the major thruways, causing dangerous driving conditions. Max Golembo, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023 Russian officials had earlier shut down the Kerch Bridge, citing fears of an attack on the key thruway, but traffic has since resumed over the bridge, Russian state-run news agencyTass reported. Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023 Laundry room Check for leaks around the standpipe — the thruway where water discharges from the washing machine — and make sure the drain hose hasn’t come loose. Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 27 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for thruway
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Noun
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But the town’s cohesion frayed in the late twentieth century as factories shuttered, leaving behind dangerous pollution, and the construction of an interstate highway demolished the historic downtown.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The demonstration included a sign posted over the freeway as well as individuals pacing with Nazi flags, according to video that aired on the station.
    Joe Kottke, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The 8-year-old girl stood in court and explained the immense sorrow a Sacramento police detective created when his car drifted off a freeway and fatally struck brothers Juan Carlos and Lionel Rodriguez.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The road is closed from Blue Ridge Cut Off/Exit 9 to Sterling Avenue/Exit 10 in Kansas City.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Motorsports have a long history of bringing race technologies to the road.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The closures affect the eastbound lanes starting at NW 17th Avenue on the expressway, State Road 836, just west of Interstate-95, FDOT said in an alert.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Listen to this article Five months after Seattle completed its three-year construction project for a new bus rapid transit line along a main thoroughfare, neighbors are beginning to take stock.
    Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
    Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters angrily confronted each other on the streets of a mainly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday night as officials said Jews were targeted with antisemitic rhetoric.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Police searched a sidewalk and street roughly 20 minutes after the apparent sound of gunshots, but found no shell casings, no evidence of the shooting, and ultimately, no gun.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Jacksonville: Monday's through Thursday's routes will run one day late.
    Joy Jackson, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Also, airlines regularly make changes to their routes.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Successful examples include the design, financing, construction, and maintenance of turnpikes (Austin, Texas), monorails (Las Vegas, Nevada), and light-rail transits (St. Paul, Minnesota, and Hudson-Bergen, New Jersey).
    Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2011
  • The shirts should be in stock in gift shops on turnpike service plazas from Orlando to Broward by fall.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Thruway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thruway. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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