How to Use highway in a Sentence

highway

noun
  • I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.
  • Trucks are conceptually like cars on the highway, sharing the same road and abiding by the same laws.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The highway is also closed from from Weldon to State Route 14.
    Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The highway was closed in both directions until about 5 a.m. Sunday.
    Mike Freeman march 5, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Police allowed the protesters to remain on the highway for over an hour but cleared it in some places by force ahead of afternoon rush hour.
    Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting occurred on a major highway that serves both Palestinians and Israeli settlers.
    Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This place is right across the highway from Palm Beach International Airport.
    Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Residents reported hail Sunday in some areas, including on a highway in San Jose.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
  • New Yorkers shouldn’t mind if Texans impose no income tax, allow people to drive 75 miles an hour down the highways or regulate how cattle are bred.
    Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Fieri’s celebrated bacon mac ’n’ cheese burger was a 10-car pileup on the highway, with multiple casualties.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In located on the old Conway highway (then U.S. 65) was announcing its new catering service on the postcard.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The spill closed part of the highway as crews cleared the cans and cheese.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Streaks of dark blood ran from deep in the brush to the shoulder of the highway.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • With your job in the rearview mirror, and the open highway ahead, how about a road trip?
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The land is visible both from the highway and the lakeshore road.
    Alissa Gary, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The person made it to the edge of the highway as the car is seen taking flight behind them.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • More highways, toll roads, and bridges have been built.
    Salil Tripathi, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • The headlights don't have much reach on a dark desert highway.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
  • The highway will be closed at 6 p.m. nightly and reopen around 7 a.m. the next day.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The car was parked on the left southbound shoulder of the highway near the Campbell Drive exit.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • More From The Post Man faints while driving 70 mph on highway.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • But there was once a time when these highways were new and free-flowing.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
  • To the southwest of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces have fought hard to protect the T504 highway.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Again, the ditch was near a highway and only a short distance outside the city.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 21 May 2024
  • The new tax will funnel at least $38 million in new money to the state highway fund.
    Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
  • Slow down and take in more of the view at one of the highway's four overlooks that provide a glimpse of the mountains and valleys.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Today, a bright pink bridge stretches from the winding highway to the rolling hills on the other side of the river.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
  • The area is also out of view of the interstate highway, Fifield said.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Due to the remote area of the hike, the landing zone was established by a nearby highway.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 June 2024
  • Long caravans of cars choked the main highway for days and those who couldn’t take to the road lined up for emergency flights out of the city.
    David Sharp and Jim Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023

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