How to Use avenue in a Sentence

avenue

noun
  • We drove down the avenue.
  • We plan to pursue all available avenues to get our message to the public.
  • They have closed off that avenue of discussion.
  • Twin looked down the avenue to make sure no one was coming.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The garage sits close to the corner of the avenue.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But are there other avenues where the waste can go?
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The crowd advanced down an avenue lined with cafés and juice bars.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Therefore, the draft may be the team’s best avenue.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Let’s take a further step into each of those avenues.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • All musicians need an avenue to work things out.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Thomas has an avenue to get consistent at-bats.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Adopt a pet There are many avenues for adoption, so the choice is yours.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So in my mind, that was just an avenue to open up what other people looked at us.
    — NBC news, 28 Dec. 2025
  • His outside shot helped clear the decks, opening up avenues.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • McLaughlin saw an avenue that could help Lynch.
    — Jaylon Thompson may 7, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
  • Havana's broad avenues are empty at night.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The avenue where tension is rich and decadent is on display here.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But as a kid, there weren't a lot of avenues to share my photography.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Another avenue would be to spur from within a spark that might get the ball rolling.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • In the trees lining the avenues, thousands of fruit bats roost through the day and then take flight at dusk.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Many only do so when other avenues of treatment have failed.
    — Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The league seems confident that new fans are coming from these avenues.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Embrace the time this month is gifting to you to express your true self through new avenues.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Come spring, stand on the west side of 57th and Fifth and stare straight across the avenue.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
  • For instance, an avenue, a historic district, a park and a creek bear his name.
    — Sonny Rhodes, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Traffic hummed along the avenue, and machinery whirred at the tire shop.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • People receive and share our work widely and through many avenues.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Those legal avenues for recourse can take months, if not years, to resolve.
    — Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Eleventh, 10th and 8th avenues would have at-grade crossings.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026

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