alternate route
Example Sentences
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That alternate route can take about two weeks to cross the Atlantic, while a standard container ship would take about nine days, and an airplane would only take eight hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
And while local oil pipelines have some capacity to serve as an alternate route, they do not have enough - forcing producers in the region to announce cuts.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Motorists will be forced to drive all the way around the mountainous Camp Pendleton — which spans 125,000 acres — utilizing Interstate 15 as the primary alternate route.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025
Degrate had turned down FM 2989 as an alternate route.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.”
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
