Sentence examples for thoroughfare named from inspiring English sources
Baron Haussmann got a Parisian thoroughfare named after himself in the mid-nineteenth century by reconfiguring the city's circulatory road systems into wide, grand avenues.
Parallel to Saʿdūn, Abū Nuwās Street on the riverfront was once the city's showpiece and as befits a thoroughfare named for a poet known for his libidinous verse its entertainment centre.
On a chilly evening at a café not far from Avenue Bourguiba, a ficus-lined thoroughfare named for the first Tunisian President after independence, a young woman told me about her recent experiences with the authorities.
Another direction offers a glimpse of Porsche Street, Wolfsburg's main thoroughfare, named in honour of the German car dynasty that created the VW Beetle and the eponymous sports car company.
The Everyman Bistro, Hope Street Up the hill and above the clamour of central scouseland is a tranquil, dignified thoroughfare named Hope Street, with a cathedral at either end and Georgian houses all around.
By the time he died, Craxi had been sentenced to a total of 11 years for corruption and illegal party funding, and been convicted or indicted in five other cases.Yet the residents of Milan, his birthplace, may soon find a thoroughfare named in his honour.
In Georgia, which has a blushing peach adorning its license plates and no fewer than 40 thoroughfares named "Peachtree," those are fighting words.
A major Moscow thoroughfare is named after him.
Poole Avenue, a major thoroughfare, is named for the family.
They came to the Hudson Valley, whalers and farmers, spreading well beyond a thoroughfare now named Wing Avenue.
Steinway Street, its most famous thoroughfare, is named after Steinway & Sons.
