alternate route

Example Sentences

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And while local oil pipelines have some capacity to serve as an alternate route, they do not have enough - forcing producers in the region to announce cuts.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

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

At this point, instead of turning back to find an alternate route, he began to move in circles, squeaking like a phonograph needle scratched across the grooves.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes