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
  • 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

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