How to Use thruway in a Sentence

thruway

noun
  • Drivers are urged to avoid the thruway and use local streets.
    — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Both passengers and employees must wear face masks while on trains or thruway buses.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2020
  • Police closed at least one thruway exit east of the festival to stem the source of a blockbuster traffic jam around the site.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • All lanes on the thruway at Pembroke were closed in the wake of the crash, which occurred eastbound on I-90.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The proposal grew from complaints from area businesses that the two major thruways were not friendly to cyclists and people on foot.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 15 June 2017
  • Laundry room Check for leaks around the standpipe — the thruway where water discharges from the washing machine — and make sure the drain hose hasn’t come loose.
    — Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • That space became, instead, a popular pedestrian and cycling thruway.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • California might be described as a collection of various states, with no single thruway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Amtrak is requiring all customers and employees to wear facial coverings while on trains or thruway buses.
    — The Washington Post, 15 June 2020
  • Big Sur is best appreciated slowly, less as a thruway and more as a destination in its own right, and that means spending the night.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2019
  • The train will now operate seven daily round trips, which brings the service back to full strength, with connections available to several thruway bus routes.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The chilly conditions could cause ice to form on the state's thruways, especially near the Pennsylvania border, where snow will mix with rain.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • These scientists suggest tweaking the mass and charge of fermions—fundamental building blocks of matter—could keep the cosmic thruway open.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The biggest threat to freight mobility is the increase of single occupancy vehicles on our thruways, our highways and our streets.
    — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Morgan said the small, community roadways and thruways will remain troublesome for crews as more overnight freezing is expected due to the low, single-digit temperatures.
    — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Morgan said the small, community roadways and thruways will remain troublesome for crews as more overnight freezing is expected due to the low, single-digit temperatures.
    — Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In Dnipro, a regional capital in central Ukraine, dashboard camera footage showed a giant explosion in the center of a city street as vehicles drove along a main thruway.
    — David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The incident in Hillburn led to the closure of the southbound lanes of the thruway for several hours, causing a significant traffic backlog that persisted well into the night.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Early on, as the war shifted and metastasized, roads became lifelines between different territories, crucial thruways of communication and control.
    — Caelainn Hogan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Russian officials had earlier shut down the Kerch Bridge, citing fears of an attack on the key thruway, but traffic has since resumed over the bridge, Russian state-run news agencyTass reported.
    — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Several people have been hospitalized after a huge motor pile-up involving at least 25 vehicles on a major thruway in Maryland Saturday morning.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the thruway authority failed to maintain adequate support around the bridge piers, which allowed severe erosion around the column footings.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Guardrails on human behavior promote animal survival – from restricting the ivory trade at a major thruway city like Hong Kong, to keeping people out of natural animal habitats in Costa Rica.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2022

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