Below you will find example sentences with "main roads". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Main Roads in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: roads
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.9 words

Words in this phrase

main roads

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • main can mean: Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal. Common word
  • roads can mean: plural of road Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

along two main roads 1× and the main roads out of 1× away from main roads 1× barrow s main roads in the 1× cameras and main roads 1× caused on main roads 1× city s main roads to prevent 1× convert of main roads convert of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a radial road 1× at great expense 1× congestion to almost 1× featuring a landscaped 1× for many years 1× for nine days 1×

Common sentence endings:

on main roads 2× and main roads 1× by national highways 1× fast moving vehicles 1× following storm babet 1× from main roads 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

two 6× convert 3× park 3× network 2× paths 2× closed 2× days 2× marg 2× city 2× country 2× town 2× off 2×

Related phrases

main camera main entrance major roads main street main streets main meaning national roads main character main library main opposition

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around roads:

major roads 13× national roads 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

main opposition main objective main meaning main meal main library main examination

Just after it in the phrase index:

main sequence main street main streets main tourist mainc ratio maine department

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

main camera main entrance main street main streets main meaning main character

Same ending:

major roads national roads toll roads

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "main roads" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as along two main roads, and the main roads out of, two, convert and park stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with main camera, main entrance, major roads, major roads and national roads, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with main roads

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The main roads overflow with fast moving vehicles. (8 words)

Congestion to almost Sedgemoor Services and the main roads out of Weston Super Mare. (14 words)

However, the main roads will not be impacted as a result of the roadshow. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

One of Derby's main roads is to remain closed in both directions for "several days", along with other local roads, as efforts continue to remove millions of gallons of flood water which engulfed them over the past 48 hours following Storm Babet. (43 words)

At great expense, a network of cycle paths was built, many of them right alongside main roads, but all too many cyclists still seem to prefer to ignore them and dice with death on the main roads instead. (38 words)

School leaders have now written a desperate letter to Oxfordshire County Council begging councillors to alter the three troublesome LTNs in the east of the city due to the 'serious disruption' they have caused on main roads. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

At great expense, a network of cycle paths was built, many of them right alongside main roads, but all too many cyclists still seem to prefer to ignore them and dice with death on the main roads instead.

For many years the two main roads through Lincoln were the A46 and A15; there were no other main roads, and they both passed along the High Street.

One of Derby's main roads is to remain closed in both directions for "several days", along with other local roads, as efforts continue to remove millions of gallons of flood water which engulfed them over the past 48 hours following Storm Babet.

These points where different kinds of garbage was dumped/ thrown are either nearby the main roads like Dakshin Marg, Jan Marg or internal roads of the sectors.

In Basra, security forces were deployed in the city’s main roads to prevent protesters from staging sit-ins, with instructions to arrest demonstrators if they tried to block roads.

My brother got out on 4×4 roads through the back country, as traffic was jammed on main roads.

A radial road network totals convert of main roads, convert of motorways and convert of paved roads.

Featuring a landscaped central park between the two main roads (collectively called Plaza Real) with stores only on the outside of the roads, Mizner Park resembles a Mediterranean suburban "town center" with a more contemporary look.

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Congestion to almost Sedgemoor Services and the main roads out of Weston Super Mare.

For nine days hardly a train moved at a time when main roads between towns were little better than country lanes.

However, the main roads will not be impacted as a result of the roadshow.

In these two areas, getting off the main roads to explore will reward visitors with cocktail bars, restaurants and other nightspots whose outsize personalities defy their cozy confines.

Israel has agreed only to daily windows during which civilians can flee northern Gaza along two main roads.

Naturally, a garden to explore would be ideal, once they have completed their settling in period, away from main roads.

One of Barrow's main roads in the town centre has been presented as a treat for pedestrians with long green paths.

Part of Marling Way, which is one of the main roads in and out of Riverview Park, is expected to be closed until Tuesday, February 13.

School leaders have now written a desperate letter to Oxfordshire County Council begging councillors to alter the three troublesome LTNs in the east of the city due to the 'serious disruption' they have caused on main roads.

The grade two listed pub lies a short distance off two main roads across between Ilchester and (the latter of which is currently being upgraded by National Highways).

The main roads overflow with fast moving vehicles.

The paper says he attended the Survive, Evade, Resist and Escape training, which teaches recruits how to avoid population centres, cameras and main roads.

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