through streets

noun

plural of through street
as in side streets

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for through streets
  1. streets
  2. highways
  3. roads
  4. roadways
  5. arteries
  6. drives
  7. boulevards
  8. routes
Noun
  • For years, Calderon as a friendly face in the streets, gas stations and grocery stores of the small Johnson County town.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The narrow streets around the sultan’s palace are filled with backpackers, street vendors, tour guides hawking their services, and office workers popping out for a coffee amid the madness.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Parcels of agricultural land surrounded on a certain percentage of their borders by homes, businesses, highways or land zoned for future development can apply for the designation.
    — Nico Rivero, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • It’s been used to raise funds for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a Minnesota woman caught using a racist slur on camera and to support Canadian truckers who blocked highways in protest of Covid restrictions.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The landscape was inspired by the inland town of Ioulida, a hilltop village with cascading residential dwellings and winding paths (no car-worthy roads), and a church perched at the precipice.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • Less than one percent of Houston’s roadways, for example, fell within the sight pictures of the city’s nearly 4,000 ALPRs in June 2024.
    — Rafael A. Mangual, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • There may be times of limited visibility, ponding on the roadways and areas of minor flooding.
    — Sarah Wroblewski, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of roadways
Noun
  • Atherosclerosis occurs when fatty deposits, cholesterol and other substances build up inside arteries, according to experts.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But arteries run throughout the body, and plaque can accumulate anywhere along this network.
    — Erica Sloan, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of arteries
Noun
  • In the Mississippi State loss, two of Mizzou’s three touchdown drives began on the Bulldogs’ side of the field.
    — PJ Green October 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This component's other skills include locating large files and folders, locating empty files, irretrievably erasing drives (other than the boot drive), uninstalling apps, and defragmenting disks and the registry.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of drives
Noun
  • Instead of wide postwar boulevards, roads would become slower and leaner, transforming Long Beach into a top-five global cycling city, said former city traffic engineer Paul Van Dyk.
    — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Visitors often still liken the city’s walkable streets and historic architecture to European boulevards.
    — Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of boulevards
Noun
  • The service, started by South Florida transit firm Prokel Mobility, features two routes.
    — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The Viceroy Seaglider is designed to travel at up to 180 mph on routes of up to 180 miles.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of routes
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“Through streets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/through%20streets. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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