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thoroughfare
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  • It ran perpendicular to the end of the main thoroughfare bisecting the bazaar.  (source)
  • Barricades edged both sides of the road—probably built in better times to keep the noise of countless cars from disturbing the city residents whose homes were set close to the thoroughfare.  (source)
  • Her eyes remained fixed ahead down the long thoroughfare of Champs-Elysées, the two-mile stretch of posh storefronts that was often called the Fifth Avenue of Paris.  (source)
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  • He had emerged from the exit portal in Paris, France, 1859, and found himself standing in the middle of a wide thoroughfare known as the Champs-Elysees.  (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.  (source)
    thoroughfares = main roads
  • A few blocks over is Grand Concourse, the borough's main thoroughfare.  (source)
    thoroughfare = road
  • Next rose before her in memory's picture-gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall, grey houses, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen scholar: a new life, but feeding itself on time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall.  (source)
    thoroughfares = roads or paths
  • He ran steadily for six blocks in the alley and then the alley opened out onto a wide empty thoroughfare ten lanes wide.  (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • More than simply a restaurant, the Piazza was designed to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares.†  (source)
    thoroughfares = main roads
  • He had a feeling that he had been in this neighborhood before, and that there was a main thoroughfare not far away.  (source)
    thoroughfare = road
  • There was a great deal of traffic in the main thoroughfares of the city — trams, cars and pedestrians; the shops were open, and since the mayor had appealed to the population not to hoard food, assuring us that there was no need to do so, there were not even any queues outside them.†  (source)
    thoroughfares = main roads
  • The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skaguay as they scattered the remainder of the outfit along its chief thoroughfare.  (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • No fear, no brakes, consumed by some irrational itch to cruise along shadowy thoroughfares, traveled by demons.†  (source)
    thoroughfares = main roads
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