How do you use Avenue in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like approach or attack, plus the exact meaning.
Avenue meaning
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
Using Avenue
- The main meaning on this page is: A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction. | A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. | The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- Useful related words include: approach, attack, plan of attack, boulevard.
- In the example corpus, avenue often appears in combinations such as: avenue and, avenue to, th avenue.
Context around Avenue
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Avenue
- In this selection, "avenue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sixth, washington, eighth, south, kenyatta and haile stand out and add context to how "avenue" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 100 eden avenue grange road, 100 vernon avenue was also, avenue near, park avenue and avenue south. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "avenue" sits close to words such as interesting, conservative and entered, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with avenue
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and so on.) run east–west. (12 words)
Echo Park Avenue is closed between Park Avenue on the north and Bellevue Avenue on the south. (17 words)
In addition to Highway 100, Vernon Avenue was also closed across Highway 100, Eden Avenue, Grange Road and Arcadia Avenue. (20 words)
She noted that the street is also important for the Fire Department, since fire trucks frequently exit the Dean Street firehouse, just east of Sixth Avenue, and go against the one-way traffic to reach Sixth Avenue and go north to Atlantic Avenue. (43 words)
The following roads are being worked on: Second Avenue from Highway 18 to Ninth Street, Washington Avenue from Highway 18 to Pleasant Court, Ninth Street from Washington Avenue to Eighth Avenue, and Eleventh Street from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue. (40 words)
Ms. Pilon traced the game’s slow path to a Quaker community in Atlantic City, where homemade copies were created with the property names replaced by local landmarks, such as Pennsylvania Avenue, Virginia Avenue, Ventnor Avenue and Boardwalk. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The following roads are being worked on: Second Avenue from Highway 18 to Ninth Street, Washington Avenue from Highway 18 to Pleasant Court, Ninth Street from Washington Avenue to Eighth Avenue, and Eleventh Street from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue.
The former Kakamega Governor disclosed that their peaceful procession would occur in the streets of Moi Avenue, Kenyatta Avenue, Haile Selassie Avenue, and Harambee Avenue.
Thanks to “mill and overlay” repaving, the city and county have added short stretches of bike lanes on: Territorial Road, Larpenteur Avenue, Fairview Avenue, Arlington Avenue, Marshall Avenue, and Tedesco Street.
Winston Road, Borough Avenue, Hinchsliff Avenue, Port Road East, Elizabeth Avenue, Chaucer Road, Shelley Cresent, Burns Cresent, Coleridge Cresent, Whitewell Road and White Farm.
The scope of work includes milling and repaving Harding Avenue, Country Club Drive, portions of Oakland Street and University Avenue, and various surrounding alleyways and smaller streets primarily northeast of University Avenue.
Extending 45th Street South from 52nd Avenue to 64th Avenue was delayed, and the scope of the Seventh Avenue North project was reduced to only Broadway to Second Street North, cutting out the project to Elm Street.
The area affected will be Cobham Avenue South to Innis Avenue South between 3rd Avenue South and the end of Wattsville Road.
They began at Florence Avenue and worked their way south on Western Avenue toward a grocery store parking lot on Manchester Avenue, where five Black-owned food trucks awaited the participants.
According to a message sent from the City of Naperville’s Naper Notify notification system, roads affected included Washington Street between Van Buren Avenue and Franklin Avenue, and Benton Avenue between Center Street and Main Street.
In addition to Highway 100, Vernon Avenue was also closed across Highway 100, Eden Avenue, Grange Road and Arcadia Avenue.
Ms. Pilon traced the game’s slow path to a Quaker community in Atlantic City, where homemade copies were created with the property names replaced by local landmarks, such as Pennsylvania Avenue, Virginia Avenue, Ventnor Avenue and Boardwalk.
She noted that the street is also important for the Fire Department, since fire trucks frequently exit the Dean Street firehouse, just east of Sixth Avenue, and go against the one-way traffic to reach Sixth Avenue and go north to Atlantic Avenue.
Eastbound drivers exit at Carling Avenue and travel east to Bronson Avenue and then to Chamberlain Avenue and Isabella Street, getting back on the highway using the Metcalfe Street on-ramp.
Echo Park Avenue is closed between Park Avenue on the north and Bellevue Avenue on the south.
Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and so on.) run east–west.
It is also a large crossroads between several of the main streets of the city: avenue Jean Médecin, avenue Félix Faure, boulevard Jean Jaurès, avenue de Verdun and rue Gioffredo.
The boundaries of the original city were Douglas Avenue to the north, Wood and Regent streets to the east, Mount Hope Avenue to the south, and Jenison Avenue to the west.
The city is also home to Bulkeley High School on Wethersfield Avenue, Global Communications Academy on Greenfield Avenue, Weaver High School on Granby Street, and Sport Medical and Sciences Academy on Huyshope Avenue.
A123 Fanshawe Avenue in both directions at Monteagle Avenue will have temporary lights due to water main work until July 21.
Addresses in Queens Avenue, Avon Close, Beechwood Road, Hazel Grove, Shetland Avenue, Heslop Street and Victor Way were targeted during the various incidents across the evening.
Phrases with avenue
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with avenue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- avenue and 89×
- avenue to 29×
- th avenue 26×
- avenue in 23×
- avenue near 14×
- avenue on 11×
- avenue between 10×
- park avenue 10×
- avenue south 9×
- avenue west 9×