How to Use freeway in a Sentence

freeway

noun
  • The vehicle first pulled over on the left side of the freeway, then to the right side.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The suspects allegedly fired at the trooper while driving, hitting a tanker truck that happened to be on the freeway.
    Brie Stimson | Fox News, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The motorcyclist flew off and landed in a bush between the off-ramp and the freeway, according to the agency.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Along that same segment, reconstruction of the northbound freeway is scheduled to start in early summer.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Autopia Zooming through the park in tiny cars is undoubtedly thrilling for kids, but not the same for adults who just endured freeway traffic to get to the park.
    Carlye Wisel, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The northbound freeway is closed at Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley.
    Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Critics counter that over time the widening simply would encourage more car travel on the freeway, creating more congestion.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Here are the metro Phoenix roads and freeways that will be closed or limited for construction from Friday through Monday.
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The state is proposing to expand the freeway between Farmington and Salt Lake City.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Both the Santa Barbara Airport and freeway were reopened on Tuesday afternoon after crews came in and cleaned up the latter for hours to remove mud.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a scene where all the cars have been abandoned on the freeway.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Here's what to know about the freeways that will be closed and how to avoid the traffic.
    Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • The driver later made a U-turn and went the wrong way on the freeway.
    Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Both sides of the freeway were closed for about six hours because of the standoff.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • She’d get stuck, find a small opening, go right up next to the freeway wall and step on it.
    Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The freeway portions that would be replaced date to 1974.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
  • Elena lie bleeding on the frigid ground as cars rushed by on the freeway.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Five suspects abandoned the car and took off on foot across a freeway.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 18 June 2024
  • The more powerful four-cylinder Cooper S achieves up to 23 mpg in the city and 30 mpg on the freeway.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Today, a dozen freeways snake across about 527 miles of L.A., and many more crisscross the county.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The vehicle was towed from the freeway on-ramp that the suspect had abandoned it on.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 May 2024
  • Evans lives south of LBJ but would like to be able to walk to her daughter and granddaughter’s home north of the freeway.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • When freeways are busiest:Does metro Phoenix have rush hour traffic?
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But that was news to people who were stuck on the freeway headed toward those bridges.
    oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But the suspects refused to stop and the chase ensued on the northbound 405 freeway, according to the NBPD.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 July 2024
  • Both directions of the freeway were closed as officers worked the scene.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Fencing will be torn out and raised to protect against the freeways, and the rest of the funding will go towards building the perimeter of the park.
    Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The trailhead has a small parking lot, with overflow parking a short walk away across the freeway bridge.
    Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Beaches that were once as wide as freeways are today more like two-lane roads.
    Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023

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