How to Use thoroughfare in a Sentence

thoroughfare

noun
  • The second was that rail lines be banned from the thoroughfare.
    — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Her house sits on Palmer Road, a busy thoroughfare.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
  • That's why, over any public thoroughfare, 4wd adds up to fast time of the day.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 22 May 2020
  • The road is an east-west thoroughfare covering about five miles through the city.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • But in towns along the way, the road feels more like the two-lane thoroughfare that lives in memory.
    — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • These are not the kinds of establishments that are at home on busy city thoroughfares or town squares.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
  • The Dutch adopted it as their main thoroughfare up the island.
    — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Very basic over most of the city, very elaborate along the main thoroughfares.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Herds of bison, elk, and pronghorn all use the park as their migration thoroughfare.
    — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the locations are near freeways and along main thoroughfares.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The traffic was stopped, as Pogue said trees toppled along the one ingress and egress thoroughfare.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • There wasn't any railroad in sight, but there was Broadway—the city's main thoroughfare.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
  • On a recent day, cars drove up and down the main thoroughfare while customers bought food at a taco stand at the corner.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
  • On the far side of this thoroughfare, the character of the land changes strongly and quickly.
    — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Lines of cars formed on the side of a main thoroughfare as locals waited for permission to check on their homes.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The artwork is on display on a huge wall near the food court — a major thoroughfare for shoppers at the mall.
    — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The thoroughfare, staff wrote, is very dangerous.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Zabel was also charged with two counts of obstructing a highway or thoroughfare.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
  • The security forces shot them dead in the middle of the thoroughfare.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • East Lake Street, a busy thoroughfare on the city’s south side, was blocked overnight by marches and then fires.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2020
  • The vibrant cultural hub has been a bustling thoroughfare for decades, lined with shops, bars and restaurants.
    — Sherrilyn Cabrera, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • This house is about a mile from River Road, Guerneville’s main thoroughfare.
    — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Lined with historic buildings, the Grand Canal is one of the main thoroughfares through the city.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Either way, tens of thousands of vehicles are now double- and triple-parked on the many of the city’s thoroughfares.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Forbidden Drive, a wide, hard packed path that follows the creek, is the main thoroughfare through the park.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The road is a major thoroughfare through Brooklyn and Parma to the south.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Remarkably, even though the nurse's office is in a main thoroughfare of the school, no students were in the hallway.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • The good folks of Monrovia decided a hotel along the busy thoroughfare made sense.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • East Capitol Street is one of the major east-west thoroughfares on the Hill.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • The home will be far enough away from main roads to be isolated from traffic, yet close enough to these thoroughfares to be convenient.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026

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