How to Use thruway in a Sentence

thruway

noun

• Drivers are urged to avoid the thruway and use local streets.
  — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2018
• Police closed at least one thruway exit east of the festival to stem the source of a blockbuster traffic jam around the site.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• Just one thruway — the evocatively named Going-to-the-Sun Road — traverses Glacier.
  — Kathleen McLaughlin, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
• Johnson says, describing his thruway to the silver screen.
  — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2019
• Down bridle paths, ancient roads, walkways and thruways.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• On the Road Though local streets are the most common type of road in the U.S., bigger thruways with higher speed limits tend to be more deadly for cyclists.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• Both passengers and employees must wear face masks while on trains or thruway buses.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2020
• The proposal grew from complaints from area businesses that the two major thruways were not friendly to cyclists and people on foot.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 15 June 2017
• Big Sur is best appreciated slowly, less as a thruway and more as a destination in its own right, and that means spending the night.
  — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2019
• These scientists suggest tweaking the mass and charge of fermions—fundamental building blocks of matter—could keep the cosmic thruway open.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
• The biggest threat to freight mobility is the increase of single occupancy vehicles on our thruways, our highways and our streets.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• In Dnipro, a regional capital in central Ukraine, dashboard camera footage showed a giant explosion in the center of a city street as vehicles drove along a main thruway.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• In Dnipro, a regional capital in central Ukraine, dashboard camera footage showed a giant explosion in the center of a city street as vehicles drove along a main thruway.
  — David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
• That space became, instead, a popular pedestrian and cycling thruway.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Amtrak is requiring all customers and employees to wear facial coverings while on trains or thruway buses.
  — The Washington Post, 15 June 2020
• California might be described as a collection of various states, with no single thruway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
• The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the thruway authority failed to maintain adequate support around the bridge piers, which allowed severe erosion around the column footings.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
• Guardrails on human behavior promote animal survival – from restricting the ivory trade at a major thruway city like Hong Kong, to keeping people out of natural animal habitats in Costa Rica.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2022
• Early on, as the war shifted and metastasized, roads became lifelines between different territories, crucial thruways of communication and control.
  — Caelainn Hogan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024