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
  • After the shooting, the perpetrator fled on foot into an alley, where a phone was recovered, then fled on a bike, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After the shooting Thompson, the suspect fled the scene on foot through an alley before riding off on a bike, according to Tisch.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of alley
Noun
  • While most counties are in normal status, across the state roads and walkways may still be slick.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Much has also been done to enhance the public realm, closing off some streets to create walkways and introducing more bars, cafés and retailers, with the leisure offer seen as crucial to attract the office population, local residents and tourists.
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of walkway
Noun
  • While exploring the cool caverns and passageways below the surface of the Earth, guests learn about the geology, history, and wildlife of the caves (the latter includes the rare ghost shrimp).
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Boring Company, Musk’s tunneling operation, is still digging underground passageways in Las Vegas — but for Teslas, not hyperloops.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of passageway
Noun
  • The suspect immediately fled on foot through an alleyway.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Moore's body was found around 10 a.m. Monday by a resident who did not know her in an alleyway behind a church and several residences on the 2000 block of North 38th Street, according to the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office in media releases this week.
    Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of alleyway
Noun
  • The byways, as two new plays by Matthew Barbot and Kallan Dana are currently demonstrating, are thick with ghosts.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Transportation planners can improve roadway safety and increase habitat connectivity for wildlife by creating special critter byways—for mammals, birds, insects and other creatures—to pass over, under and across roads away from vehicles.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of byway
Noun
  • Advertisement The barrier, about 8 feet high and maybe 100 feet in length, blocked access to what has been used for many years as a shortcut trail to the Mt. Hollywood Summit, which is now designated as the Tom LaBonge Panorama after the late L.A. City Councilman who championed the park.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Back in 2016, Apple replaced the function row of keys to the top of a MacBook Pro's keyboard with a slim touchscreen display, offering contextual shortcuts and actions.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of shortcut
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