(n.) A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
(n.) An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
(n.) The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
(n.) An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
(n.) Concurrence; cooperation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
(2) What he concluded was that the destruction of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx was something endemic to modern life.
(3) Trump loyalists stand by their man – but the resistance is taking root Read more The protesters are part of a sudden swell of liberal activism that has drawn millions to city streets and airport concourses across the US, in a startling show of resistance to Trump’s presidency.
(4) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(5) It's not just that Adele is blasting out on the concourse, white towels have replaced the Wimbledon-branded ones, and the posh stewards with purple arm bands have given way to policemen with machine guns.
(6) In order to improve prehospital services to the airport and the city, a paramedic has been stationed in the concourse at the airport 16 hours a day since 1982.
(7) I just want to see my child in Belgium.” At Keleti, tempers frayed and conditions were rapidly worsening in the station concourse thanks to the late summer heat.
(8) Some refugees slept on the station concourse on Saturday night.
(9) Francis Whittaker (@frittaker) #britishthreatlevels "A rail replacement bus service can be found outside the station concourse" May 24, 2017 Viktoria Michaelis (@VikiMichaelis) 'Is this seat taken?'
(10) My wife just grabbed her and dragged her out of the door and on to the concourse.
(11) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
(12) On Tuesday afternoon at 10 minutes past two, Miliband and his partner Justine emerged from the Midland Hotel to make the short walk across the concourse to the conference centre.
(13) Everyone was in a huge state of panic, calling each other ... it was just extremely disturbing for everyone there.” Elizabeth Welsby, a 50-year-old teacher from Bolton, told BuzzFeed the concourse of the arena was thick with smoke and the smell of explosive.
(14) There was a pump providing fresh drinking water and somewhere to wash hands and faces, but it was in a public concourse.
(15) It also includes at railway station concourses, ticket halls, footbridges, subways and platforms, including uncovered ones.
(16) When train delays are announced, sensitive instruments might read the synchronised rolling of eyes on station concourses in milliblitzes.
(17) At the airport, the main concourse was hit by the earthquake with the number of working runways reduced from three to one.
(18) On a wall in Doncaster railway station concourse is a plaque commemorating the achievements of Thomas Steels and Jimmy Holmes.
(19) However, it is understood the contract does not extend to outlets of WH Smith, which has shops on the concourses of many London mainline stations.
(20) Facing the De Young Museum across the park's open-air music concourse, the Academy of Sciences has been an instant crowd-pleaser.
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.