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a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions
in Britain they call a divided highway a dual carriageway
How To Use dual carriageway In A Sentence
- Why is it that I always get stuck in traffic jams on dual carriageways, where it is impossible to do a U-turn (or anything else about it), when I am dying for a wee?
- Enter width for all Dual Carriageway shapes on page.
- The widths of both the east and westbound dual carriageways across the flyover were narrowed to allow workmen access to repair the flyover's parapets.
- The roads were mostly dual carriageways, long and straight ones with no crossroads.
- The A303 road improvement scheme would leave two thirds of the World Heritage Site divided by dual carriageways and deep tunnel cuttings.
- Because of the flawed layout and the speed of the dual carriageway traffic, driving along this stretch of road can be harrowing.
- The NRA also claims that more dual carriageways and motorways will save lives, suggesting that the nonconformists are, if not anti-life, at least prepared to turn a blind eye to protect their own interests.
- A good dual carriageway with two lanes for ordinary traffic and one for buses has been reduced to a congested road with one lane for traffic and one bus lane each way.
- Driving down the dual carriageway on a cold February afternoon, a boy, who was about as far from glamorous as it is possible to be, was heading homewards. Irish Blogs
- The tunnel would be a dual carriageway. Times, Sunday Times