secondary road

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Recent Examples of secondary road 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 Taking secondary roads with lower speed limits or postponing travel during squall warnings are advised. Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 Steward’s walk was the real deal: a four-hour amble along secondary roads past farmsteads and olive groves, the undulating terrain fanning out around us on all sides. Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024 Tuesday morning, the state’s road closure report included 579 – three on interstates, 38 federal highways, 58 state roads, and 480 secondary roads. Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for secondary road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary road
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • On side streets, getting from my apartment to hers could take up to an hour or longer in traffic.
    May Wilkerson, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • Parking will be available on side streets only, and short-term lane closures on Arcade Street between Wheelock Parkway and Maryland Avenue are likely.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 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
  • In one video, officers were seen throwing smoke bombs and flash bangs onto the street to get people to disperse, so the authorities could drive away in vans, SUVs and military-style vehicles.
    Greg Wehner , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
  • Like the old streets in so many cities, which were meant to bring out the history, turned out to be repetitions everywhere.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • But, the fastest ever pure-petrol road car at the first attempt is a pretty good result too.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Inside the cozy cockpit, leather, burl wood, and side curtains with sliding plastic windows take the driver back many decades to a time when radios were an optional nuisance—all that mattered was the vehicle and the road.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Gracia Grande, the program officer at the Salvadoran branch of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, told CNN that the law is an existential threat to her NGO’s work.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
  • Low-Hanging Fruit ‘Low-hanging fruit’ has roots in agriculture, referencing the fruit that hangs on the lower branches of a tree and therefore is easier to gather.
    Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • There are about 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • This case follows another that occurred in 2018, when armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group Los Norteños de Río Bravo, whose bodies were later found on the federal highway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025

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“Secondary road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20road. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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