How to Use right-of-way in a Sentence

right-of-way

noun

• The right-of-way for the line is 150 feet wide, according to PSEG.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
• The agreement calls for cost-sharing on some right-of-way work.
  — Amy Wilde, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• The pear trees aren’t just in right-of-ways or lining neighborhood streets.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023
• The most likely route suggested in the past has been along the Interstate 5 right-of-way.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• The public right-of-way includes the medians, sidewalks and the grassy area between the curb line and the sidewalk.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2023
• The site is along the railroad right-of-way, Wood said, an area that the city wants to make into a pedestrian pathway.
  — Corina Vanek, Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
• Drivers wanting to get into the Keys or leave the Keys have been stranded and parking along the rights-of-way and road shoulders.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
• The project would also require overland travel along the project right-of-way, along the access roads and in work areas.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• The victim had the right-of-way, and Pena blasted through a steady red light, prosecutors say.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2025
• That will be followed by the design, right-of-way and construction phases.
  — Elena Gastaldo, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
• Trains travel on a narrow right-of-way along a cliff more than 60 feet above the beach in the small seaside community.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• Reality check: The city does not allow signage in the public right-of-way.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 9 July 2024
• Add to that operation and maintenance costs and right-of-way usage fees that must be paid to Brightline and the FEC.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
• The new rules also allow for more types of businesses to expand into the public right-of-way.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• Officials say the driver went through a fence alongside the Walmart parking lot and across the grassy right-of-way before striking the valve.
  — Juan A. Lozano and Sean Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• Running through its length was the four-track bed of the New York Central, which lay in a right-of-way that had been turned over to the railroad by the city half a century before.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• The organizers provided a map showing where to stand to remain safe and in the public right-of-way.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
• The city does not charge restaurants a fee to use the city right-of-way areas as dining spots, but may want to consider doing so, the staff report states.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Numerous cliff failures have occurred in Del Mar in recent years, where the tracks follow a narrow right-of-way as high as 60 feet above the beach.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Billboard companies have little stake in protecting the land around the signs, since the public right-of-ways are managed by the state, Longest said.
  — Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2025
• Context: The fee is a charge cities can assess on utilities that use public property like street rights-of-way.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
• Today, the depot is a museum, and the old railroad right-of-way is the popular Iron Horse Regional Trail.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
• Sheehy said the city’s right-of-way, upon which sidewalks would be installed, can extend up to 29 feet from the road and onto residents’ lawns.
  — cleveland, 20 July 2023
• The projects are within city right-of-way, and were suggested by residents or businesses.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• The state Coastal Resources Management Council will decide whether or not to designate it as a public right-of-way.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Only the Del Mar right-of-way remains unfenced because of the strident opposition there.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Also, city employees were asked to put together a fee system, so the city can soon start charging rent for the ones that have been built on parking spots in the public road right-of-way.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
• State officials said right-of-way agents worked with the roller skating rink’s owners and compensated them for the property.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2024
• The corridor, the government says, is designed to follow existing transmission line rights-of-way for parts of its path.
  — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
• Here's what to know The ultimate plan for the city is to build an urban forest using a mix of native trees that can stand up to the poor soils of parking lot gardens and public right-of-ways, and to build a full canopy for the city.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023