byroad

noun

Definition of byroadnext
as in alley

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for byroad
  1. alley
  2. walkway
  3. passageway
  4. alleyway
  5. byway
  6. shortcut
Noun
  • Chances are good our adventurous readers have taken a trip that’s right up your alley — and then shared not only their travel adventures but their practical tips, too.
    Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Afterward, Rivera told the deputies, the shooter climbed in the passenger side of a Cadillac that was waiting in a nearby alley and left.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of alley
Noun
  • Keep your floors clean while keeping walkways safe with these tips from a Midwestern cleaning expert.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There were as many as 40 people on the walkway at the time.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of walkway
Noun
  • Such lean staffing is something of a necessity: the Bowery Market, a onetime auto-body shop on a busy NoHo corner, hosts four near-microscopic food stalls arranged around a broad open-air passageway.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Seemingly supernatural encounters, locked rooms and secret passageways tease the question of whether the house is truly haunted, or whether the long-ago death was actually a murder.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of passageway
Noun
  • But nobody needs to tell the media world about some of the more treacherous alleyways for a business that brings in or sells out to private equity.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The search for environmentally friendlier methods that skip those additional steps has led materials scientists down some unusual alleyways: For instance, an aerogel made from whey protein—a cheese by-product—can capture gold ions from computer motherboards bathed in acid.
    Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of alleyway
Noun
  • Hood River is a hub of recreation in the Columbia River Gorge and a launching point for adventures in the nearby Cascade Mountain Range, including Mt. Hood and the surrounding fruit and wine byway.
    Will McGough, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Play games by the fire Along the Mohawk Trail — one of the country’s first scenic byways, originally used by Native Americans as a trade and travel route — is the Tourists hotel, remodeled from the 1960s Redwood Motel.
    Lauren Matison, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of byway
Noun
  • Grow faster with less effort Personal branding is a shortcut to growth.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This cozy recipe is quick and easy to make, thanks to a sneaky shortcut.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of shortcut
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