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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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2025
Nearby roads and highways were closed to allow fire crews access to the area.
—Charles Ventura, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
And that’s while thousands of rental units sit unoccupied within Nashville’s inner highway loop, following a development boom that some development firms predict will lead to rent increases by 2027.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
This dual-purpose design requires exceptional stiffness, vibration control, and precision engineering, allowing heavy highway loads and high-speed rail traffic to share the same structure safely.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2025
Nearby roads and highways were closed to allow fire crews access to the area.
—Charles Ventura, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
And that’s while thousands of rental units sit unoccupied within Nashville’s inner highway loop, following a development boom that some development firms predict will lead to rent increases by 2027.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
This dual-purpose design requires exceptional stiffness, vibration control, and precision engineering, allowing heavy highway loads and high-speed rail traffic to share the same structure safely.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/highway. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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highway
noun
high·way
ˈhī-ˌwā 
: a public road
especially
: a main direct road
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