Sentence examples for underpass from inspiring English sources

The word "underpass" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tunnel that passes beneath a road or railway and allows people or vehicles to pass from one side to the other. For example: "The traffic was too heavy to cross the intersection, so we decided to use the underpass instead."

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underpass

noun

A road or a pedestrian passage in a tunnel that runs underneath a road or railroad.

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He opens with the road running underneath the car, cuts to a brief shot of Spader shadowed through an underpass, then cuts to a close-up of the gravel in front of the car as it stops and reverses.

This Marian sighting came months after her image was found on a pre-Katrina New Orleans billboard, before that in a Chicago freeway underpass, and before that in a grilled cheese sandwich that fetched $28,000 on e-Bay.

He said that shortly before the explosion two young men had left a bag at a shop in the underpass, saying they would return after changing some money.

Sam North is that writer.In his sixth novel, "The Unnumbered", Mr North travels to parts of London some of us never reach, wasteland gypsy caravans, warm subway tunnels, the mossy extremities of St Pancras cemetery and the cardboard sleeperies of the underpass at Centre Point in the West End.

Her days are spent in an underpass near the ministry of foreign affairs.

Bomb terrorA bomb planted in a busy underpass in Moscow killed at least eight people and injured nearly 100.

As he mulled over the idea, my colleagues pointed out the bomb scars in the concrete underpass we were driving through, etched a year beforehand when a suicide bomber tried to kill the British Ambassador.

The highway leading towards Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost province, is broad and well-paved, and lined at almost every underpass with people looking to hitch-hike.

Sarah Shourd, who was arrested with them, was freed last year.A year after a disputed election in Burundi, an unidentified group of gunmen wearing uniforms opened fire in a bar in the capital, Bujumbura, killing at least 30 people.No let up in the slaughterIn Mexico 35 bodies were dumped on a highway underpass in Veracruz.

Two rabbis were attacked in a Moscow underpass last month by a gang shouting "kill the Yids".

The bomb that went off on August 8th in an underpass beneath the square, leading to the metro, was small but cunningly placed, and timed to inflict the maximum number of casualties on the rush-hour crowd.

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