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Recent Examples of freeway Cocodrie’s is in a 40-year-old restaurant location on Rufe Snow Drive just north of Loop 820, across the freeway from Babe’s Chicken Dinner House. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025 Medical helicopter crashes on California freeway A large-scale response is underway in Sacramento after a REACH Air Medical Services helicopter crashed onto Highway 50, shutting down eastbound traffic Monday night. Vanessa Navarrete, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2025 State police shut down the freeway for about an hour and conducted a canine sweep. Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025 In a rare moment of reverence, the 405 freeway was shut down in his honor. Lizzie Hyman, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for freeway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freeway
Noun
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Nearby roads and highways were closed to allow fire crews access to the area.
    Charles Ventura, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nearby roads and highways were closed to allow fire crews access to the area.
    Charles Ventura, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There is a road closure on US-69 between NW Platte Road and MO-9.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The upper deck is designed to carry a six-lane expressway, while the lower deck will accommodate a two-track high-speed railway and two metro tracks.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Aerial view of Seoul downtown city skyline with vehicle on expressway and bridge cross over Han river in Seoul city, South Korea.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Based on events and social media posts from recent months, bad blood hasn't been flowing from our side of the street.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Customers queuing up for one of Dutch Bros' signature sweet drinks, spilling onto Winton and neighboring streets.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How to Get There Visitors arriving by car will find the village conveniently located near major thoroughfares such as I-287 and the Saw Mill River Parkway.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor Swift recounts driving on Nashville thoroughfares during her high school days with a good friend.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new truck routes and restrictions are the result of study, coordination and collaboration between city officials, local residents, area small business owners and trucking companies, city officials said.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This left kids, seniors and people from nonwhite, working-class communities with few alternative routes.
    Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Soviet-era apartment blocks line leafy boulevards and glass towers cluster in the financial district.
    Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Large stretches of Wilkinson and West boulevards are highlighted as areas of concern on the network.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025

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