Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
thoroughfare .
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Examples
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The courtyard you are looking into is one of the main thoroughfares of college.
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The courtyard you are looking into is one of the main thoroughfares of college.
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These free roads usually were the original routes, pre-dating the modern freeways, and today are welcomed options for those who cannot or will not pay the tolls by which the construction of the fancy thoroughfares is financed.
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These free roads usually were the original routes, pre-dating the modern freeways, and today are welcomed options for those who cannot or will not pay the tolls by which the construction of the fancy thoroughfares is financed.
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These free roads usually were the original routes, pre-dating the modern freeways, and today are welcomed options for those who cannot or will not pay the tolls by which the construction of the fancy thoroughfares is financed.
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For the moment, the main thoroughfares are clear (more or less), though the hilly neighborhoods like mine are still ringing with regular intervals of MEEEERRRREEEEEEWWWWWNNNNNGGGGG -- that is, the sound tires make when drivers realize they're tootling up a 21% grade* and the asphalt is covered with black ice.
Saturday's big adventure so far moriarty6 2007
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Now it chanced one day, whilst he paced about the main thoroughfares, as of wont, and was bending his steps right and left, he heard a crier crying aloud and saying, ‘Who will earn a thousand gold pieces and a slave-girl of surpassing beauty and loveliness by working for me between morning and noontide?’
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Even if the flood-likely areas were to flood, main thoroughfares will would be passable.
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This highway is one of the main thoroughfares crossing the city from north to south.
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And so, he started naming the main thoroughfares after the King and his family.
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