How to Use off-ramp in a Sentence

off-ramp

noun

• State police said the left lane of Route 9 North and the Exit 34 off-ramp were closed for the project.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
• The on- and off-ramps for the eastbound lanes will be closed at the same times as the right lane restrictions, ADOT said.
  — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2023
• State police said the Exit 92 off-ramp was closed for some time because of the crash.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
• The Supreme Court has a possible off-ramp to defuse Tuesday’s case.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
• The death occurred about 10:50 p.m. Monday in the westbound lanes of the freeway near the Powell Street off-ramp.
  — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
• The pirates of the eighteenth century lacked such easy off-ramps.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• By contrast, Amazon and Apple chose to go their own way, and Tesla took the Nvidia off-ramp in 2019.
  — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Motorists will be detoured around the work at the Tavern Road off-ramp and then sent back to the freeway via the Tavern on-ramp.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
• There appears to be no off-ramp yet, as the destruction and death toll mount in both countries.
  — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
• But the fact that there’s an agreement of this scale after just a weekend of face-to-face talks shows that both sides want an off-ramp.
  — Shuli Ren, Twin Cities, 16 May 2025
• The new frontage road will replace the Allen Boulevard southbound on-ramp and the Denney Road southbound off-ramp.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Plan for other overnight on- and off-ramp closures along southbound Loop 101.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Biden’s inner circle has shown no public signs of urging him to find an off-ramp.
  — Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• The center, visible from the Interstate 10 off-ramp at Third Street, may not seem like much.
  — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
• Local on- and off-ramps near the fire scene, at Southwest Salmon and Southwest Taylor streets, remain closed.
  — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
• Traffic will detour to the eastbound off-ramp, using Exit 26 to turn around.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2025
• Some Chinese opinion leaders appeared to suggest off-ramps in the trade war.
  — Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
• The premise of wealth providing an off-ramp to media decline appears to be falling apart.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Volunteers had an off-ramp from disaster in the Vandy loss, but Chaz Lanier missed a game-tying free throw try with 2.8 seconds left.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• Bonnet then allegedly fled on foot from the crash, running north up the southbound highway off-ramp.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2025
• This hangout, wedged in by a public school, a Greyhound bus stop, and a Manhattan Bridge off-ramp, spilled onto the street and became a scene.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
• This time, Biden should offer himself up not as a bridge to the next generation but as an off-ramp, finally, for the boomers.
  — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Latin American states should provide an off-ramp to the Venezuelan crisis.
  — Michael Lind, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2023
• Some experts see promise in the idea that GLP-1 pills could work as an off-ramp of sorts for people who use weekly injections.
  — Amanda Sealy, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
• Overnight on May 22, the Centennial Way westbound off-ramp at Exit 27 will close.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2025
• The car landed upside down in the grassy median between on- and off-ramps and there were marks on a tree from the collision, according to News12.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
• The Phase One deal gave both countries an off-ramp from tariff escalation.
  — Brendan Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2025
• Geopolitically, the Iranians are looking for an off-ramp, the US wants things to slow down here.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 June 2025
• Chinese manufacturers, too, are searching for an off-ramp.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
• Still, there were signs of a potential thaw as the Clintons appeared to be searching for an off-ramp to testify.
  — Stephen Groves, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026