highway

noun

high·way | \ ˈhī-ˌwā

Definition of highway

: a public way especially : a main direct road

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Examples of highway in a Sentence

I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads. the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city

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Colorado was hit with a deluge of snowstorms over the weekend, and motorists driving on the state's I-70 highway on Sunday experienced the worst of the frosty onslaught when an avalanche barreled down a mountainside and engulfed their cars in snow. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Harrowing Video Shows Massive Avalanche Blanket Colorado Highway," 4 Mar. 2019 The Terrain is rated at 23mpg by the EPA: 26mpg on the highway and 21mpg in the city. — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, "Review: GMC Terrain gives you the ride you want—at a price," 23 Dec. 2018 In Utah, a semi-trailer slid off an icy highway in a canyon and hit a deputy, sending him to the hospital with serious injuries and closing the road. — Gillian Flaccus, The Seattle Times, "Snow in San Francisco? Mild cities don’t escape winter storm," 6 Feb. 2019 People from a caravan of Central American migrants walking alongside a highway on Tuesday in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, "Pope Brings Pro-Migrant Message to Central America," 24 Jan. 2019 One of the busiest stretches of highway in North Fulton County will see rolling lane closures the week of July 9 as county crews make pavement repairs to Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell from Ga. 400 to the Chattahoochee River. — David Ibata, ajc, "Holcomb Bridge in Roswell to see lane closures," 30 June 2018 In New Hampshire, Border Patrol stopped cars at checkpoint along the highway over the weekend. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "Why it’s legal for Border Patrol to have checkpoints in the US," 22 June 2018 Two vehicles were stopped together in a lane of traffic along the highway, police said. — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, "One killed, two critically injured in three-vehicle crash near KC's Downtown Airport," 21 June 2018 Late Saturday night, Walker received a call that a doe and her fawn were hit by a car while attempting to cross a highway in Osage County, Oklahoma, according to a post on the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page. — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, "Oklahoma game warden saves unborn fawn by performing emergency C-section on dead doe," 10 June 2018

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