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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