'thoroughfares' is a correct and usable word in written English
It typically refers to a wide street or highway, often one that connects two important places. For example, "The new thoroughfares in the city improved the overall traffic flow."
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents – young and old, rich and poor – have peacefully occupied major thoroughfares across the city, shuttering businesses and bringing traffic to a halt.
He cited the example of a new hotel planned for Leningradsky Prospekt, one of the main city thoroughfares, for which one design plan envisages a mock-up of one of Stalin's "Seven Sisters", the neo-gothic skyscrapers that dot Moscow.
Small lanes where kids used to play suddenly became thoroughfares; food prices went up.
On a more mundane level, the standard cliche is that Canberra is "boring", with its endless quiet low-rise suburban streets, and its empty city thoroughfares.
By the mid-noughties, the Irish for example were the second biggest foreign property owners in Berlin with Irish companies establishing offices along famous thoroughfares like the Kürfurstendamm to run portfolios for investment clubs back in the Republic.
Just prior to its announcement, two groups representing Catholic residents living on the most contested thoroughfares, Belfast's Lower Ormeau Road and the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, flatly rejected the dumping of the commission.
"IT'S not about the 50 cents" reads a scrawl on a shop shutter on Avenida Faria Lima, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares.
The Range Rover's fold-down lower tailgate was also a handy perch from which to view a polo match or a point-to-point.Moreover, with the moneyed classes flitting between town and country, the Range Rover became a common sight on London's more fashionable thoroughfares, such as Sloane Street and the King's Road.
CRANES clutter the skyline along northern Virginia's busy thoroughfares.
Palestinian residents described how on June 27th police charged through Silwan's narrow thoroughfares firing tear-gas grenades through windows and doors, choking people inside their homes.
In fact, Libya trails far behind other oil-rich states by many measures, and not just in the contrast between Tripoli's garbage-strewn thoroughfares and the gleaming Miami-scapes of the Gulf.
