alternate route
Example Sentences
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That alternate route can take about two weeks to cross the Atlantic, while a standard container ship would take about nine days, and an airplane would only take eight hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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," he added.
From BBC ● 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
