Sentence examples for principal thoroughfare from inspiring English sources

Manhattan's crosstown Fulton Street, named in 1816, was the principal thoroughfare connecting the two river terminals.

The Canopic Way (now Ṭarīq al-Ḥurriyyah) was the principal thoroughfare of the Greek city, running east and west through its centre.

Princes Street became the main shopping street and the principal thoroughfare of the city, and few original buildings remain behind the shop fronts.

He suggested positioning the opera house directly on the Volksgarten (it was originally planned to be 100 metres away), which required the city's principal thoroughfare to be rerouted to accommodate the new building.

I did, however, know a bit about the more recent but to my mind equally remote history of East Broadway at the time, around 1900, when it was a principal thoroughfare for the Lower East Side's Jewish immigrants.

Broad avenues were created and are still the city centre's principal thoroughfares (Stadíou and Panepistimíou [Elefthérios Venizélou]), between which an orderly grid of narrow side streets was laid out.

His 1999 film, "Magnolia," a sweeping vision of a dozen lives linked by chance and compassion, took its title from one of the Valley's principal thoroughfares, Magnolia Boulevard, along which much of the movie is set.

These days, there are 120 or so storefronts in the district, many concentrated along Northeast 40th Street and Northeast Second Avenue -- the principal thoroughfares of an area that is now abuzz with commerce.

The principal thoroughfares are either named after the city's earliest pioneers (like the Milby Street on which the D&W stands), or direct you to Houston's predecessor/one-time rival town in the area (Harrisburg), or lead you to the sea like Navigation and Canal.

The leafy Paseo del Parque runs behind the expanding port and, with the Alameda Principal, forms the city's main thoroughfare.

thoroughfare – it was O.K.