thoroughfare
Example Sentences
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Reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial thoroughfare for the Gulf’s energy exports, has been a focus of the diplomatic efforts, the Arab officials said.
The other spectators watched the show on a dozen screens installed further down the road, all the way to the main thoroughfare blocks away.
From BBC
Chavez’s name has long been revered in Latino communities like San Francisco’s Mission District, where a major thoroughfare was renamed for him after he died in 1993.
The triptych is along the wall in a main thoroughfare of the museum facing the floor-to-ceiling windows that form part of the building’s bridge over Wilshire Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times
The widening conflict has halted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for energy markets that is a thoroughfare for one-fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
