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Thoroughfares is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Thoroughfares in a sentence

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Thoroughfares meaning

plural of thoroughfare

Using Thoroughfares

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of thoroughfare
  • In the example corpus, thoroughfares often appears in combinations such as: main thoroughfares, major thoroughfares, thoroughfares in.

Context around Thoroughfares

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Thoroughfares

  • In this selection, "thoroughfares" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, main, shopping, busier, west, beyond and completely stand out and add context to how "thoroughfares" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and pedestrian thoroughfares so much and are not thoroughfares. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "thoroughfares" sits close to words such as accountancy, aldis and alisha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with thoroughfares

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Parking lots are not thoroughfares. (5 words)

Heavy rain has flooded major thoroughfares in Rocky Mount. (9 words)

Photographs taken in March and April showed a number of its most popular shopping thoroughfares completely empty. (17 words)

Salt Lake City traffic planners and chamber business leaders are focused on detailed and constantly evolving plans to manage the intermittent lane closures and spates of heavy truck traffic along many of the city’s go-to thoroughfares. (38 words)

His “territory” includes his own environment, which he considers to be the areas he drives in most frequently – comprising many miles along some of Mobile’s main thoroughfares and some side streets in Midtown and Spring Hill. (37 words)

In a further attempt to rein in the increasing number of women defying Iran’s compulsory dress code, authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced. (36 words)

Why should the government be faulted for traffic if we clog the roads with reckless parking, transforming thoroughfares into impromptu bus stops? (22 words)

Example sentences (20)

Drivers of neighborhood electric vehicles — as well as street-ready golf carts, electric and pedal bicycles, e-scooters and similar vehicles — will be encouraged to use those streets rather than busier thoroughfares.

In a further attempt to rein in the increasing number of women defying Iran’s compulsory dress code, authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced.

It also can privately fund and complete improvement projects in public spaces, such as trash can upgrades, bench installation, sign augmentation, park upgrades, public art and tree canopies on main thoroughfares.

Reimagining Los Angeles freeways for other uses may be unique for the area, but wide thoroughfares have been converted in other major cities.

The introduction of the new low emission zone is also expected to deter people from coming into the city centre – a development hardly likely to help struggling shopping thoroughfares like the once-busting Sauchiehall Street.

The masterplan also proposes a three-way system of classifying more major roads in the city as either “streets”, “boulevards” and “thoroughfares”, with traffic in the first of these being limited to 20mph.

According to the memo, nine cameras were installed on eight downtown thoroughfares: West Broadway Street, Broadway Street, East Harbor Drive, F Street, Sixth Avenue, Market Street, E Street and G Street.

A major highway, several thoroughfares and a key transit hub were flooded in Canada's largest city on Tuesday after torrential rain hit Toronto, while power outages were reported in multiple areas.

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Meanwhile, traffic has been reduced on several thoroughfares in Deer Lake due to the flooding, and according to the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, two major roads are closed in Corner Brook as precautionary measures.

Once bustling thoroughfares were transformed into ghostly enclaves, deserted except for the haunting echoes of gunfire and the occasional presence of armored police vehicles patrolling charred streets.

Why should the government be faulted for traffic if we clog the roads with reckless parking, transforming thoroughfares into impromptu bus stops?

Heavy rain has flooded major thoroughfares in Rocky Mount.

His “territory” includes his own environment, which he considers to be the areas he drives in most frequently – comprising many miles along some of Mobile’s main thoroughfares and some side streets in Midtown and Spring Hill.

In response, Año said they compiled footages of main thoroughfares and found out that 30 percent of the motorcycle riders remove their face shields in stoplights.

It begs the question “why bother?” when the city seems not to care much for these thoroughfares beyond the original dedications.

Maybe people will love their slow streets and pedestrian thoroughfares so much that they’ll want to keep them after the coronavirus stay-at-home orders are lifted.

On September 21, Yangon, the country’s largest city, went into lockdown, producing the of deserted city thoroughfares that have become familiar wherever the contagion has made serious inroads.

Parking lots are not thoroughfares.

Photographs taken in March and April showed a number of its most popular shopping thoroughfares completely empty.

Salt Lake City traffic planners and chamber business leaders are focused on detailed and constantly evolving plans to manage the intermittent lane closures and spates of heavy truck traffic along many of the city’s go-to thoroughfares.

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Common combinations with thoroughfares

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "thoroughfares" in a sentence?
An example: "Drivers of neighborhood electric vehicles — as well as street-ready golf carts, electric and pedal bicycles, e-scooters and similar vehicles — will be encouraged to use those streets rather than busier thoroughfares." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "thoroughfares" from authentic English texts.
What does "thoroughfares" mean?
Thoroughfares means: plural of thoroughfare
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