alternate route

Example Sentences

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Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

“By opening this alternate route, we will support the flow of marine traffic into Baltimore.”

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Several migrants said they found out about the alternate route through social networks and from human traffickers.

From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023

When Fernando Garcia encountered a bridge along the John Muir Trail last month that was being demolished after sustaining severe snow damage, he started on an alternate route.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023

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