How to Use main/major road in a Sentence

main/major road

noun
  • Alper, 25, jumped into her car and raced to the main road.
    Isabel Debre, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The truck zigzagged through side streets for two hours to avoid Israeli tanks on the main road south.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, the park’s main road spans 28 miles and takes about an hour to travel by car.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • From the main road to the gate, things got ugly, with 30 minute to an hour waits to get into the ranch.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That is the main road leading people to the city’s beaches.
    al, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Dimes were scattered across the parking lot and the main road nearby.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Others who made it to their cars in time were able to get on the main road and start driving east.
    NBC news, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes, the main road to the park closes so the military can test.
    Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In a full circle, the river again reached the fort, filling up the nearby main road.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • To the right of the main road, campers ages 13 to 16 have pitched tents and are prepping dinner to enjoy outside.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The main road to Lahaina continues to be closed down to tourists on Thursday.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But the area of the derailment still looked like a large cleanup site this month, with truck traffic jamming a main road.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Whiteley sometimes cut north through the creek bed to hitchhike on the main road nearby, Spruill said.
    Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Enjoy the carriage ride down the Avonlea main road, which dips and winds as good rural roads should.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • How to Get Around Santa Teresa has one main road that runs parallel to the beach.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
  • On the main road, several miles from our house, the snow berm had deer feet and other body parts sticking out of it.
    The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The building began as an ordinary wooden structure on the old Bayshore Road, the main road out of the city.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The main road bridge has a hole in it, and the surface of the smaller bridge that runs alongside it also appears to be damaged.
    Ivan Nechepurenko, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • The main road in Martissant is a strategic artery that connects the Haitian capital with the south of the country.
    NBC News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Santa Teresa has one main road that runs parallel to the beach.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022
  • The block-long alley links the main road with another narrow strip packed with bars and trendy restaurants.
    Adam Schreck, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Golfers watched as the vehicles winded their way toward the exit and onto the main road.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The main road stretching through the village of Demydiv, just north of Kyiv, came to a standstill at noon on Thursday.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Rolling along the main road into Novomikhailovka from the east, the 155th has blundered into minefields and drone kill-zones.
    David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Nyimbilo and his family walked to a main road in search of help.
    Renata Brito, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Tobias raced around the neighborhood searching for the duo until a video was posted to Nextdoor of the two running down a main road.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Residents in Turmus Ayya said some 400 settlers marched down the town’s main road, setting fire to cars, homes and trees.
    Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • Her house, paid for in cash with settlement money, was off a main road, hidden by a stand of trees, down a long dirt-and-gravel road.
    Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • On a late August Monday, dozens of bakeries were shuttered on the main road from Tunis to Tabarka.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023

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