secondary road

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Recent Examples of secondary road Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025 As of Tuesday morning, crews spread 1.8 million gallons of brine on hundreds of miles of interstates, highways and secondary roads, Stein said. Joe Marusak and, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025 On Saturday, officials in northern Alabama said schools could remain closed Monday if ice doesn't melt off secondary roads. Sara Cline and Ben Finley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025 Although the current forecast is not expected to cause major travel impacts, secondary roads and overpasses will likely be impacted across Middle Tennessee Monday evening and into the night, said the weather service. Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for secondary road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary road
Noun
  • How fast a vehicle can go from zero to 60 miles per hour is a bragging point for manufacturers trying to sell vehicles Motorists who access State Route 109, often from side roads from a growing number of home developments in Lebanon and Wilson County, are also taking note.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The driver is king: one hand on the wheel, eyes on the horizon, free to turn down that dusty side road on a whim.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Situated on a side street off the busy Magnificent Mile, the hotel feels protected from frenetic shoppers and commuters but is still just one block from Oak Street shopping.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Historic stone churches display rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter signs, and even the narrowest side streets find room for bike lanes.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Microsoft embraced neutrality after heavy unionA Since the NLRB will be weak for quite a while but a new study by The Center for Work And Democracy at Arizona State University identifies workers can influence a high road economy that go beyond traditional collective bargaining.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the former president didn’t stay on that high road for long.
    Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Footage of the protests showed Ecuadorians clashing with police forces in the capital city of Quito on Tuesday as protesters dismantled fences and barriers while police fired tear gas in the streets.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.
    Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Miran has already uttered the unthinkable about dollar dominance and done the unthinkable by serving as an executive branch loyalist on the Fed board.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The route, closed to the public for security reasons, was lined by 22 half-companies representing all branches of the armed forces.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The same goes for the highway—in fact, potential customers would be hard-pressed to find better in this department for the price offered.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.
    Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025

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“Secondary road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20road. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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