[ US /ˈævəˌnu/ ]
[ UK /ˈævənjˌuː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a line of approach
    they explored every avenue they could think of
    it promises to open new avenues to understanding
  2. a wide street or thoroughfare
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How To Use avenue In A Sentence

  • They can't say conclusively he's not alive, and the presumption is they must aggressively pursue every avenue of this case. Scott Speicher
  • At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
  • Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
  • Erin Lyle, co-owner of Marty's Auto on Rathbone Avenue, told the Daily Herald "We have three houses right next to us and we've never had a noise or nuisance issue ... they're (city) not picking on tattoo parlors or grocery stores or anyone else. Archive 2009-04-01
  • They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
  • A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.
  • Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue. Times, Sunday Times
  • He dug a hole in our yard on Edgerton Avenue to plant a maple tree when I was born.
  • The wellingtonia in Orchard Close is thought to be 360 years old and part of an extended avenue planted to mark the route taken by the defeated King Charles after the Battle of Edgehill.
  • Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
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