alternate route
Example Sentences
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Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
Not so Maps, which, as we neared San José, began chiming in with a quite complicated alternate route, designed, I assumed, to avoid freeway traffic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
“By opening this alternate route, we will support the flow of marine traffic into Baltimore.”
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024
Traditionally many people trying to reach the United States have flown into Brazil or other South American countries, but knowledge of this alternate route has spread through word of mouth.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
They had heard on the radio that we were taking an alternate route.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
