How to Use service road in a Sentence

service road

noun
  • Police said the victim sped away but crashed on the service road.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Run done on a rolling dirt service road one exit south of Flagstaff.
    — Ben Bruce, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • More good news is that all service roads and trails are open in the watershed.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Yu drove her truck down a service road and walked out onto North Beach.
    — Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The suspect left the scene in a dark blue Kia hatchback north bound on the east service road.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The plane came to rest inverted in a clearing about 75 yards from a service road.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
  • Police said protesters began to block lanes of a service road.
    — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The water main break buckled the service road and left piles of sand and debris caked over part of a nearby sidewalk.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Traveling north across the overpass and turning right to enter the service road at the yield sign the road is like a rub board.
    — Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The service road around Acrisure Bounce House will remain fully open.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Part of the lounge juts out from the rest of the Larson Center as a cantilever above the service road.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
  • These heroes on behalf of half-shells fanned out along a dirt service road and began to march across the scorched earth in search of reptile remains.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Webb said he was instructed to follow a second car to the neighborhood and to park on the highway service road.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Drivers would enter and exit the property using a service road that wraps around the top of the tunnel.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • For a bigger hike, start at Deer Flat and head up a service road called Highland Trail.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • There is a short stretch where the trail follows a power line service road and, at the top of a hill, peels off and heads down to the Rio Nambe.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2013
  • By the time firefighters arrived, flames had formed a tunnel of fire, rising up on either side of a service road that runs up to the power lines.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • So far, one service road, Londonderry Lane, is closed to traffic due to flooding.
    — Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • After sunset, some threw water bottles at the line of police on the I-65 service road.
    — Anna Beahm | [email protected], al, 13 June 2020
  • Continue to the Loop 610 service road, then re-enter the westbound lanes.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
  • Don’t be fooled by the short mileage; this is an incredibly steep and slick hike up a service road to reach the peak, which also includes some rock scrambling at the top.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The new 3-story development is directly north of a rear service road to Best Buy.
    — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Langs lost control of his car and ended up in the median between Loop 820 and its service road, police said.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2025
  • More than one-third of the trail has been built in sections over the years, including, in recent years, the section in Calumet Park, which runs along a service road.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Visitors take a lift to the adventure park, but there is a service road to it, and it is believed the man drove to the park to enter after hours, Vallario said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Find parking on the west side of Rush Creek Road, then cross the road to follow an old service road to the top of the 400-foot bluff.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The man crossed the Bridge Street service road, jumped over the guardrail and ran into traffic on I-30 westbound, police said.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The southbound service road and right lane of Highway 67 were closed during the investigation.
    — Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The southbound service road of Sam Rayburn Tollway at Alma Road was shut down after the crash.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Two people walking on a highway service road in west Fort Worth were struck on Sunday night by a pickup truck driven by a drunken man, police said.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025

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