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parkway

noun as in avenue

noun as in expressway

noun as in freeway

noun as in pike

noun as in thoroughfare

noun as in turnpike

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Fairfax County police said a man — who was later identified as Syed-Humza Mahmood, of Annandale — was driving his Lexus “at a high rate of speed” southbound on the parkway when he hit two vehicles before his car flipped and he was ejected.

It traveled three miles before exploding above the parkway, showering the pavement with debris.

Best time to visit “We usually tell folks to expect peak leaf color in mid-October,” says Amy Ney, communications coordinator for the Blue Ridge Parkway Association, the marketing partner for the parkway.

Operated by the National Park Service, the parkway is a planned landscape, unlike most national park areas.

From the lowest portion of the parkway at the James River in Virginia, the elevation increases nearly 3,300 feet over a 13-mile distance to Thunder Ridge.

If nothing else, the cop himself should have called 911 when the group decided to block the Henry Hudson Parkway.

A week later, Lopez was dead at age 29—shot and killed with an illegal gun on the side of a Long Island parkway.

Maueen's was one of the four bodies found in the bushes of Long Island's Ocean Parkway.

A narrow parkway cuts through the beach here, with only sand dunes and brush on each side.

Across from the county jail on the parkway there near the esplanade.

Telling the driver to follow him, he descended and crossed to where Cathedral Parkway switches off.

But when Victor left the parkway he saw in his mirror no flashing red light, somewhere he had lost the police.

A patrol car caught up with him on Grand Central Parkway and forced him off the road.

For the five mile ride along the parkway there was no need of observing the speed regulations.

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On this page you'll find 297 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to parkway, such as: boulevard, channel, entrance, outlet, pathway, and promenade.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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