Road and Stretch

Road

Road noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Stretch and road are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stretch" instead a noun "Road".

Nearby Words: roadway, roadside, roadless, roadie

Stretch noun - A wide space or area.

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Road and stretch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Road" instead a noun "Stretch".

good	good road	good stretch
middle	middle road	middle stretch
short	short road	short stretch
right	right road	right stretch
Other adjectives: certain, endless, straight, single, entire, dangerous, bad, narrow, main, isolated, remote, famous, major, abandoned, final, deserted, last, nightmarish.

A driver picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely stretch of road, or sometimes just agrees to give a lift to someone met at a party or similar circumstances.

Source: Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
Similarly, sometimes they're still expected to do what Hans mentions in passing, like kill every type of an animal in a stretch of wilderness for a road.

Source: Film / The Troll Hunter
On Kino's Journey Kino encounters a rail road worker who spend the last twenty years of his life cleaning and maintaining a seemingly unused stretch of rail road.

Source: Right Hand vs. Left Hand

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