single-lane
- adjective
- /ˈsɪŋɡl leɪn/
- Traffic on the single-lane road slowed to a crawl as vehicles navigated around each other carefully.
- single-lane road
- single-lane highway
- single-lane bridge
Examples
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But by the time we had passed Lublin, the roads had decreased to a single lane each way, winding through a tunnel of trees.
Fiction book (2001) -
In addition to the weekend closure, there will be several single lane closures on eastbound and westbound U.S. 36 on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20 from 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. each night for temporary paving, median removal, and striping operations.
Blog text (32) -
The road pinches back to a single lane.
Fiction book (1990) -
We followed the largest single-lane road leading to the airport, barely above the telephone poles.
Blog text (22) -
We found ourselves going off the highway and onto a winding single-lane road in a forest, stuck behind a construction vehicle.
Blog text (22) -
At the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel, traffic from New Jersey was restricted to a single lane, and cars with fewer than three people were being diverted.
Blog text (8) -
The single lane was rutted and slippery, ruts that fit my tires exactly because almost no one drove that road but me.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now the character of High Point Road changes: the blacktop becomes gravel and dirt, hardly more than a single lane, with virtually no shoulders and a deep ditch on the right.
Fiction book (2001) -
The GPS in my car was inadvertently set to "Avoid Tolls," and so my four-hour trip down the turnpike became a seven-hour meander through stop lights, back country highways, and the single-lane roads of north Florida.
Blog text (24) -
Due to roadwork, drivers must share a single-lane road, taking turns to pass each other safely.
Synonyms
Having only one narrow lane so traffic moves in a single line
Antonyms
A road with more than one lane for traffic moving in the same or opposite directions
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Etymology
Single-lane combines single ('one') and lane ('a narrow road for vehicles'), so it literally means a road with just one lane. So a single-lane road or bridge has only one way for traffic in both directions, and cars may need to pull over to let others pass.