How to Use off-ramp in a Sentence
off-ramp
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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
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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
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State police said the Exit 92 off-ramp was closed for some time because of the crash.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
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The Supreme Court has a possible off-ramp to defuse Tuesday’s case.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
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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
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The pirates of the eighteenth century lacked such easy off-ramps.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The new frontage road will replace the Allen Boulevard southbound on-ramp and the Denney Road southbound off-ramp.
—oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
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Plan for other overnight on- and off-ramp closures along southbound Loop 101.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
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Biden’s inner circle has shown no public signs of urging him to find an off-ramp.
—Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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The center, visible from the Interstate 10 off-ramp at Third Street, may not seem like much.
—Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
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Local on- and off-ramps near the fire scene, at Southwest Salmon and Southwest Taylor streets, remain closed.
—oregonlive, 16 May 2023
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Traffic will detour to the eastbound off-ramp, using Exit 26 to turn around.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2025
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Some Chinese opinion leaders appeared to suggest off-ramps in the trade war.
—Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
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The premise of wealth providing an off-ramp to media decline appears to be falling apart.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Latin American states should provide an off-ramp to the Venezuelan crisis.
—Michael Lind, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2023
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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
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Overnight on May 22, the Centennial Way westbound off-ramp at Exit 27 will close.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2025
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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
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The Phase One deal gave both countries an off-ramp from tariff escalation.
—Brendan Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2025
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Geopolitically, the Iranians are looking for an off-ramp, the US wants things to slow down here.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 June 2025
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In 2017, with support from the city of Nampa, ITD removed the single-direction westbound off-ramp.
—Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024
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Separately, the eastbound I-10 off-ramp at Baseline Road and the westbound on-ramp also will be closed.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2024
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