secondary road

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Recent Examples of secondary road Tuesday morning, the state’s road closure report included 579 – three on interstates, 38 federal highways, 58 state roads, and 480 secondary roads. Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024 Hurricane Milton will bring flooding that is expected to impact both primary and secondary roads, parking lots, buildings and homes. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024 The total number, courtesy of secondary roads, has climbed each of the last three days of the workweek. Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Oct. 2024 Traffic was backed up for dozens of miles (kilometers) during the morning rush hour and the crash left other highways and secondary roads in gridlock. Susan Haigh, Fortune, 2 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for secondary road 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary road
Noun
  • While sunlight melted snow in some areas on Wednesday, some school districts noted rural and side roads were still ice- and slush-covered in their announcements.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The side roads are not being paid attention to, with the city and the state concentrating most of their attention on the larger roads.
    Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Find the parallel streets because where everyone's going is the touristy area, but the parallel streets and the side streets are where the locals have their businesses.
    Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Later that night, those new measures were visible, but at least two side streets leading to Bourbon did not appear to be fully sealed off and had only lightweight bicycle rack-style barricades.
    Laura Strickler, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • When the wagon trains started moving out West, when the boats were landing at the foot of Main street — then things started moving.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The new law has officials scrambling to create more shelter beds, so police have places besides jail to drop off people caught sleeping on the street.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know The advisory warned that road conditions could become hazardous, particularly during peak travel hours on Wednesday.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Mayor vetoes measure increasing borrowing by $4 million for additional road repairs Johnson vetoed in full a measure that would borrow an additional $4 million to fund improvements to an additional 30 lane miles of roadway.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Its branches are adorned with red and pink berries and hearts along with green leaves.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Cleveland Public Library's leader sent a memo to staff this week advising them not to intervene should Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents visit branches to take patrons into custody.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Southern whites imprisoned a disproportionately Black convict population, often for minor and outright fictional crimes, and put them to work, especially in building the highways that brought the South into the modern age.
    Justin Hawkins / Made by History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trying to avoid a collision, both drivers veered toward the highway’s east shoulder, where the vehicles collided.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Secondary road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20road. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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