- plural of avenue.
avenues
Example Sentences
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We do so through many avenues: voting, protest, political party activism, lobbying, filing lawsuits, and writing op-eds, to name a few.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
In a landmark speech in 1949, he argued that once constitutional avenues existed, methods such as fasting and civil disobedience should give way to democratic processes, warning that otherwise they became the "grammar of anarchy".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The conversion of the building, located on East 42nd Street between Second and Third avenues, is part of a wider effort to relieve the city’s housing crunch by repurposing empty office space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The most important thing is to “run down all your other avenues first,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Summer was unreal—whole swaths of the city became fashion shows, and the avenues were nothing but runways for the youth.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
