dual carriageway

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Fox News, 16 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual carriageway
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
  • This behavioral hijacking turns what should be a reproductive dead end into a superhighway for infection.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • From the quiet fields of rural India to the deserts of northern Mexico runs an international migration superhighway, funneling tens of thousands of Indians to the U.S. border each year.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to passing through different parts of the city, the route led them through suburban regions within London's M25 ring road.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country.
    Fola Aina, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2021
  • Currently, most rapid-charging stations on UK motorways are 50kW, which will do the same 80 per cent top-up in around an hour, while a 7kW home wallbox will fully charge the New 500 in around six hours.
    Vicky Parrott, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with: people sleeping on subway cars or begging for change on street corners, often struggling with mental illness or addiction.
    Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Truck Driver Swallowed by Giant Sinkhole in Japan as Rescuers Work to Retrieve Vehicle Resident Terrance Perkins told WFAA that during heavy rain, streets in the area bear the brunt of the overflow of water from the White Rock Lake and Prairie Creek dams.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities closed that side of the interstate, and traffic soon was gridlocked in the immediate area and south to Interstate 8 and beyond as police tried to talk the man down to safety.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The crash, which involved multiple vehicles, prompted a temporary shutdown of the interstate as first responders arrived on scene.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These rental platforms build in sophisticated defenses to avoid detection and bypass filters and security nets, usually leveraging legitimate cloud services.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But for the gun possession charges subject to the bypass program, prosecutors were approving those in around 90% of cases and generally handling them by phone, said Yvette Loizon, chief of policy at the state’s attorney’s office.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Johor-Singapore causeway is considered the world’s busiest land border with over 300,000 people passing through the immigration checkpoint daily.
    Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Alysia and Paul immediately drove to the causeway.
    David Chiu, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025

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“Dual carriageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual%20carriageway. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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