parkway

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Recent Examples of parkway Still, even some officials off-put by the tone of the message have urged MnDOT to continue to keep at-grade boulevard or parkway options, at least for a point of comparison to other concepts. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2025 The men proceeded to drive Rodriguez to the intersection of the Cross Island and Southern State parkways. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024 Her skeletal remains were then discovered near the junction of two parkways in Queens on August 25, 1991, but her identity remained a mystery—until now. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024 The '80s are out: West Des Moines' older office buildings between 22nd and 50th streets were once regional draws, but attention has shifted as businesses seek out newer developments near Jordan Creek and Grand Prairie parkways. Linh Ta, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for parkway
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Noun
  • A number of crashes have occurred on interstates, according to a tracker on Nashville.gov.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Federal investigators are probing a deadly pileup inside a Wyoming interstate tunnel that will shut down part of a core coast-to-coast roadway for days, officials said Saturday.
    Erick Mendoza, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Phishing attacks on the platform have reached staggering levels, with thousands of malicious apps designed to steal credentials and bypass security measures.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The proliferation of Israeli settlements, outposts, and bypass roads have left the West Bank a Swiss cheese of Palestinian enclaves.
    Kenneth Roth, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lawmakers from outside the beltway have lobbied for more flights to different parts of the country due to the airport’s convenience over the other two airports.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Trucks carrying hazardous materials that used the bridge to cross the harbor are now forced to go around the beltway in the opposite direction (a 35-mile detour) due to cargo restrictions through Baltimore City traffic tunnels.
    April Quevedo, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But Pike — like many others here — knows that the thousands of dogs roaming freely between the desert landscape and people's homes serve as a superhighway for ticks.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Think of it as a superhighway connecting two bustling cities, allowing seamless and efficient communication.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But the town’s cohesion frayed in the late twentieth century as factories shuttered, leaving behind dangerous pollution, and the construction of an interstate highway demolished the historic downtown.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Many southerners think the Watford Gap motorway service station — which is confusingly 60 miles north of Watford, a town just north west of London — is the true gateway to the frozen steppes beyond.
    Matt Slater, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • According to a statement from England’s motorway maintenance company National Highways, the coffin dates back more than 1,500 years to Britain’s Roman era.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The other side: Richmond, Virginia, is a veritable autobahn by comparison, with drivers making the same distance trip in under 10 minutes on average.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The top speed of 218 mph went untested, but if the speedometer on one example taped on the autobahn is to believed, the LaFerrari can actually punch its way all the way to 231 mph.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The main parade begins at Bay to Bay and Bayshore boulevards and continues along downtown to Brorein Street, then turns on Ashley Drive.
    Michelle Stark, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Students walking or biking to Grant Union High School must cross the boulevard to get to neighborhoods to the east.
    Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Parkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parkway. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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