artery

Example Sentences

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The roads on either side of a bridge that serves as the sole artery allowing entrance and egress to the neighborhood were washed out, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

This increase was largely due to more reported "cardiac events," including chest pain, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure.

From Science Daily

The thesis was simple: As the internet became ubiquitous, the world’s communications arteries were about to be rewired, and those who owned the fiber would own the future.

From The Wall Street Journal

Machinery has been used to cut a huge muddy track to open up the woods and create what Harold's Park site manager Tom Moat describes as an "artery of wildlife through the woodland".

From BBC

On a sunny morning in September, a dead doe lay on the side of a small road just off 395, as cars whizzed by on the artery that connects communities along the Eastern Sierra.

From Los Angeles Times