ROUTE in a Sentence

Learn ROUTE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
143 example sentences for ROUTE, such as:
1. We drove home by a roundabout route.
2. She came home by the unvarying route.
3. The plane deviated from its usual route.
4. Satellites route data all over the globe.
5. He took a tortuous route through back streets.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ROUTE
route
 v.  divert in a specified direction
 n.  an established line of travel or access
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  He knew what he wanted, and when Gerald wanted something he gained it by taking the most direct route.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Along the entire route of several hundred miles, the tracks had been cleared and all the available rolling stock in the Southeast had been assembled for the movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Carey Ashburn had brought a little tea, which he had found in the tobacco pouch of a captured Yankee en route to Andersonville, and everyone had a cup, faintly flavored with tobacco.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  There seemed thousands of them, bearded, dirty, their guns slung over their shoulders, swiftly passing at route step.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  She knew what she wanted and she went after it by the shortest route, like a man, not by the hidden and circuitous routes peculiar to women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  She came home by the unvarying route.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Now, as a vessel of war readily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
8  Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  He now spoke of the long and painful route by which they had left those spacious grounds and happy villages, to come and battle against the enemies of their Canadian fathers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
10  The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
11  Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to "follow," moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
12  The route was now painful; lying over ground ragged with rocks, and intersected with ravines, and their progress proportionately slow.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
13  Placing Alice, then, on the same animal with Cora, he seized the bridle, and commenced his route by plunging deeper into the forest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  The lake now began to expand, and their route lay along a wide reach, that was lined, as before, by high and ragged mountains.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
15  At this point, where their footsteps might be expected to be no longer visible, they retraced their route to the brook, walking backward, with the utmost care.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
2  Barriers have been erected all along the route the Pope will take.
3  We took a roundabout route to avoid the accident.
4  He took a tortuous route through back streets.
5  The climbers tried to find a new route to the top of the mountain.
6  The overland route is across some really tough mountains.
7  The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.
8  Satellites route data all over the globe.
9  Motorists are advised to find an alternative route.
10  We drove home by a roundabout route.
11  We took a cross-country route instead of the motorway.
12  The dog cocked its leg by every tree on our route.
13  The railway network had reached its greatest extent in route mileage.
14  In such rising route of China, the PLA has been tools and policy-making participant more than being sharer of political power.
15  The plane deviated from its usual route.