Examples
“The motel Zacatecas on the main North South throughway is quiet and inexpensive.”
“I had to pull off the road on the throughway, which is illegal, and stop my heart from palpitating, you know?”
“In one way the book felt like a throughway to connect the first book and the establishment of characters with the third book and the ultimate showdown.”
“To get the best overall view we trek up a dirty river, then along a wide throughway with an endless line of white figures marching down one lane, and an equally daunting line of black figures marching up; bellies down, backs up.”
“The gallery they gave Mike Arcega to continue this thought is more a throughway.”
“All summer last year, my roommate and I played San Andreas largely to the exclusion of all else, for long hours in the dog days when, here in Spanish Harlem (the header image is a crummy shop of my neighborhood's main throughway), the neighborhood residents took life out into the streets.”
“Which was strange, if you thought about it, since it was a federal airport, operated by the Federal Aviation Administration, and reachable only by a federally constructed throughway.”
“Two flights up, we quietly opened the throughway door to her old floor.”
“Complete Coverage at WSJ. com/World On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people packed a major throughway in central Tehran for a fifth straight day of protests to support reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has accused the government of rigging the election in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
The Wall Street Journal: Iran Arrests Reformers as Huge Protests Continue
“Singer Rivers Cuomo, his wife, daughter and another passenger were in the van/bus that slid off the New York throughway after hitting a patch of ice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘throughway’.
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, byway, parkway, shaftway, hallway, skyway, runway, doorway, railway, thruway, archway, hatchway and 79 more...
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Ways to find out
a good way, the hard way, one way, on the road to, a bad way, an easy way, another way, my way, edgeways, know way, thoroughfare, back way and 42 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Storm Thief
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Storm Thief.
chit, lean-to, panopticon, hobnail, periscope, shanty, flout, racket, lathe, dynamo, kiln, gurn and 44 more...
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