down the road

phrase

: in or into the future

Examples of down the road in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In previous seasons, the organization would sometimes push difficult, important conversations like these down the road for a variety of flimsy reasons, according to multiple people on last year’s staff. — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

The company is also reducing its debt and cutting costs, which could set itself up for higher earnings power down the road. — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

The rendezvous demonstrated skills that could be useful to a variety of customers down the road, according to the company. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Gregg Eichwedel said down the road from them lived the late Bill Montgomery, co-founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization spearheaded by Kirk. — Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for down the road

• afterload
• episode
• internode
• microcode
• multimode
• nematode
• nesselrode
• overflowed
• overload
• overrode
• radioed
• torpedoed