How to Use multilane in a Sentence
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Each orbital altitude is like a traffic lane on a multilane highway.
—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
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For more than a quarter-mile, both sides of the multilane street were AfD territory.
—Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
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This includes multilane expressways where cars speed alongside, and in some cases above, the water.
—Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026
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If crosswalks only come every quarter or half-mile, Hamann said, many people will opt to jaywalk through multilane roads.
—Maia Pandey, NBC News, 29 June 2023
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With streetlights few and far between, a busy multilane road leading into the city turns into a white-knuckle speedway at nightfall.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
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Herzberg was crossing the multilane road with her bicycle when the Uber SUV struck her at 38 miles per hour.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2020
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The multilane roads in places like Fairfax and Tysons Corner were much more the Lightning's element.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
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Wedged between apartment buildings and a multilane thoroughfare, the camp is the size of a city block — a patchwork of squat mud-brick houses with narrow, muddy lanes and open sewers.
—New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
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Supporters said the location, at the intersection of two multilane highways, was an appropriate place for a high-rise.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
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Even in its early phases, Compass’ effort has revealed some patterns, including the dangers of multilane roads and roads with speed limits above 35 mph.
—Sarah A. Miller, Idaho Statesman, 21 May 2024
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However, multilane roundabouts can still create issues if drivers shift lanes while in them — problems that Caltrans hopes the new turbo roundabout will eliminate.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
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Imagine a Druid Hill Park bounded not by a multilane expressway, but by roundabouts, bike lanes shielded by green buffers and new pedestrian crossings.
—Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
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Helicopter images aired on state television showed a crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or Freedom, Square for miles down a multilane street of the same name.
—Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
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At least 17 bodies in civilian clothes were discovered along a half-mile section of Nikopolsky Avenue, a multilane highway that runs across the northeast part of the city, the video shows.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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The community learned to avoid multilane highways early on, according to Gravlin, because the additional lanes provide more voting options, which slows the trip.
—Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Its multilane approaches are empty, its vast nearby shopping emporiums deserted.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
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Engineers and public officials jammed multilane roads, highways, and bridges into previously quiet neighborhoods in order to move as many cars as quickly as possible through cities.
—Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
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Its 8 lane-kilometers (5 lane-miles) of roadway are arranged in sections having the attributes of a highway, a multilane arterial road, or an intersection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2019
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The city was poised to level the area, widely considered a commercial slum, to build a multilane expressway spanning downtown Manhattan proposed by city planner Robert Moses.
—Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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Helicopter images aired on Iranian state television showed a massive crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or Freedom, Square for kilometers (miles) down a multilane street of the same name.
—ABC News, 5 July 2026
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