What is "arterials"

Usage examples of "arterials".

Instead of the small, cramped roads tightrope-walking over the rocks, broad white arterials lined with towns and factories, and presently smoke staining the gilded air, and a quiver of heat between the smoke.

No traffic is emerging from the problem region, no radio or telephone communication inside the region can be established, and the Texas Rangers have set up roadblocks in the major arterials to turn back traffic attempting to enter the area until the problem is identified.

By the time they reached Ashland, Sorel had a bare-bones working knowledge of the town and the arterials that fed it.

A few city dwellers—the smaller the city, the better their chances—sped beyond their suburbs before freeway arterials became clots of blood and machinery.

The smaller service pipes that branched from the huge arterials proliferated, making it necessary for Karr to clamber out, away from the wall, searching for a way down.