service road

noun

Examples of service road in a Sentence

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He was reportedly found on a service road, supporting himself with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth. Jennifer Hauser, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 Redesign the new street that would border Lafayette Park communities from the current service road approach to a neighborhood street. Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024 Police describe arriving onto a chaotic scene while responding to multiple 911 calls about traffic being blocked on a westbound Sunrise Highway service road in Islip around 1 a.m. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Nov. 2024 The suspect jumped from the service road area (Douglass Street NE and the Kenilworth Avenue Service Road) to Interstate-295 southbound. Scott McDonald, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for service road 

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of service road was in 1921

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“Service road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20road. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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