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

Now, they are also planning to drill 180m perpendicular to the main site of drilling to create an alternate route to reach the workers.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2023

A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.”

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman