(n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
(n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
(2) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(3) Once you narrow this,” she said, pointing to the boulevard, “you’ll never get it back.” Kurth believed that council planners were trained in today’s orthodoxy and so felt they must change their city.
(4) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(5) You emerge on Rajpath, Delhi’s most impressive boulevard, with the mighty arch of India Gate, a 1931 war memorial designed by Edwin Lutyens at its head.
(6) "I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper.
(7) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
(8) Both Daydreaming and Safe from Harm were accompanied by atmospheric videos by the young director Baillie Walsh who then directed the now famous video for Unfinished Sympathy in which Nelson walks along West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, singing the song as if oblivious to the odd cast of street characters she encounters, while the group members fall into step behind her in cameo roles.
(9) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
(10) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.
(11) On the stage, the tolerant, discursive, boulevard theatre in which he had flourished was disappearing.
(12) Police used teargas to disperse the protesters, who were gathered on the same broad, tree-lined boulevard where two years ago anti-government protests led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's longtime dictator.
(13) Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
(14) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(15) Friday’s march in Acapulco took place under stormy skies, filling the boulevard that rings the resort’s famous bay.
(16) After another two kilometres down the boulevard is the Something Good roadhouse for a tasty burger and shake to-go.
(17) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(18) The movement, which has the support of about 90% of the population according to opinion polls, began when a small group of activists erected tents in Tel Aviv's prosperous Rothschild Boulevard in protest at high rents and house prices.
(19) Every third shop on Fevzi Pasha Boulevard, a wide shopping street that led to the smugglers’ quarter, was happy to oblige.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest City as obstacle course ... a map of Chicago in Watch Dogs All very exciting for any Google Glass cyborgs keen to lord it over the Tron boulevards of the future.
Thoroughfare
Definition:
(n.) A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
(n.) A passing or going through; passage.
Example Sentences:
(1) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(2) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(3) The thoroughfare channel reported by Chambers and Zweifach was also observed.
(4) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
(5) True arteriovenous shunts are not present in most skeletal muscles, but 15-20% of the microvessels represent thoroughfare or preferential flow channels.
(6) It’s just their economic status that makes them more vulnerable.” A growing body of research also shows that those living within a few hundred metres of major thoroughfares suffer greater health problems.
(7) On a prominent site on Notting Hill Gate, the main thoroughfare, between a popular cinema and the busy underground station, he took over the premises of a cheap Italian café called Topo D’Oro.
(8) In the anterior portion of the ciliary processes a "thoroughfare channel" (bypass) was found leading from the arteriolar tree directly into the marginal venule bypassing the capillary network of the ciliary processes.
(9) Turkey, with its long and often porous border with Syria, has been a major thoroughfare for many of the thousands of foreign fighters seeking to join extremists including Islamic State (Isis), which has captured territory across Iraq and Syria.
(10) Many cities would struggle if given just 24 hours to organise a victory parade which involved the deployment of two helicopters, countless police officers, a small army of undercover security experts and the closure not just of the main square but also a key thoroughfare, in the middle of the rush hour.
(11) The Marriott is in the centre of the city, close to the national assembly, the main commercial thoroughfare and the national television headquarters.
(12) But on Qasr-el-Aini Street , a normally frantic thoroughfare that passes the houses of parliament, the walls have rid the area of cars.
(13) Ulster loyalists are mobilising to block the parade being routed through Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare.
(14) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
(15) For Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station , it was Plank Road, a 19th-century thoroughfare running through southern Ontario, Canada.
(16) Assad’s troops imposed a siege last month after seizing high ground overlooking the Castello Road, the only thoroughfare bringing aid to the east of the city from Turkey, which backs the opposition.
(17) Egypt plans to add an extra lane to the Suez canal, one of the world's most important thoroughfares for trade, in an attempt to increase the number of ships using it each day.
(18) flooded on to Tverskaya Street, the Moscow thoroughfare that leads straight to the Kremlin.
(19) Traffic along Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of Little Havana, became noticeably lighter and all work was dropped as groups of people crowded around TV sets to witness this piece of history.
(20) 2.39pm BST Athens returns to normal... And it's back to business on Ermou, Athens' main commercial thoroughfare, says Helena Smith who is out on the ground.