side road

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Recent Examples of side road The side roads will be closed as well, plus there will be additional vehicle barricades and checkpoints throughout the Quarter. Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025 Troopers later located the BMW on the side roads in Fairfield and were able to follow the vehicle from a distance. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025 The truck turned east off the highway onto a side road and was eventually pulled over by a deputy at the end of East Pine Street. Max Silverson, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025 While sunlight melted snow in some areas on Wednesday, some school districts noted rural and side roads were still ice- and slush-covered in their announcements. Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for side road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for side road
Noun
  • Regulators said the proposal might have also slowed deliveries, hurt already-low driver pay and pushed more heavy truck traffic onto side streets instead of interstates.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 24 July 2025
  • Many side streets stay untouched, a point of consternation over the years for residents.
    John Tuohy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Parker said most highways are in decent shape, and road crews will focus on frontage and secondary roads.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • Outreach workers have already started visiting people in an undisclosed street camp to direct them to housing, a process expected to take four to six weeks for each site, Haring-Cozzi said.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 26 July 2025
  • Tristen Paige Smith, of Cincinnati, was killed in a July 21 shooting on Autumn Drive, a residential street in the city of over 9,000 residents, officials confirmed.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the watch party at Haute Spot in Cedar Park, just down the road from where 50 Firefly operators monitored the landing.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Among road games for Carty’s Blue Hens is a trip to Colorado on September 6 and a date at Wake Forest on November 22.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025

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“Side road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20road. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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