Sentence examples for thruway from inspiring English sources
The word "thruway" is usable in written English, particularly in American contexts
It is often used to refer to a type of highway or expressway. Example: "We took the thruway to reach the city faster." Alternatives include "expressway" or "freeway."
Cutting pathways through the mountains of central and western New York, these rivers became the state's avenues of commerce, serving first as the basis of the Erie Canal and later as the route of the New York Central Railroad and of the Governor Thomas E. Dewey (New York State) Thruway.
(He also pushed for the adoption of "catalog" in place of "catalogue," and of "thruway" to describe major highways, a usage that survives to this day in New York State).
By the time (three minutes later) that Cavanaugh was exiting off the thruway and driving down Main Street (six minutes later), past the stately trees unfurling their fall brilliance, he had collected himself and was clear-eyed and in a new state.
It's what you see on the road cuts on the thruway, for example".
Every foodie knows by now that a ramp is not just a way to access the Thruway.
The walls shook with the vibrations of the thruway just above our heads.
Tarrytown, village, in Greenburgh town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. A northern suburb of New York City, it is just northwest of White Plains, where the Hudson River widens to form the Tappan Zee (there bridged by the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway).
The Grand Island West River Parkway forms a scenic route around the island and, together with Interstate 190, provides a connection with the New York State Thruway, Robert Moses State Parkway, Beaver Island and Buckhorn Island state parks, and Buffalo to the south.
Toylike cars and trucks moving along a nearby, picturesque stretch of the New York State Thruway contribute soft whizzes and hums to a musical mixture of wind and birdsong.
A man interrupted his drive along the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in order to have lunch.
As you turn off the New York State Thruway in Yonkers onto Stew Leonard Drive, you will see, looming ahead, a giant aluminum-siding barn and a cement silo.
