Thesaurus results for INTERSTATE

interstate

noun

Definition of interstate

as in highway

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Recent Examples of interstate Green managed a parking lot for long-haul truckers just off the Arkansas interstate, near the border with Tennessee and Mississippi. — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 Nguyen was parked in the interstate’s median conducting stationary speed enforcement of northbound vehicles, said Forest Lake Police Chief Luke Hanegraaf. — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2026 Saturday when hundreds of vehicles blocked all northbound lanes of I-75 while participants allegedly performed burnouts and other stunts in the middle of the interstate. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 The Georgia Department of Transportation has planned back-to-back closures this weekend and next on different sections of the busy Atlanta interstate, requiring detours and causing significant delays. — Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 30 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for interstate

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Noun

As for additional traffic on the Parkway West itself, Zang says there won't be significant impact until crews start putting up steel over the highway.

— John Shumway, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
From the highway, at least three sheriff vehicles were seen parked at the top of a residential driveway.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

There are many exotic animals there, including zebra, camels, and lamas, all visible from the freeway.

— Joan Morris, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Born to Mary Florence Webb, a nurse, and John Sherman Heilmann, a civil engineer, Heilmann split her childhood between the Bay Area and, after her father took a job building freeways, Los Angeles, by way of El Segundo, a seaside village nearby.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of freeway

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

This is for a variety of reasons, but relatively low speeds, gentle acceleration, extensive regenerative braking, and little resemblance to sustained motorway driving are key among them.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Views are also good at what has become something of a local landmark, particularly to drivers on the nearby M61 motorway who can’t fail to notice the sweeping roof and angled floodlight poles when lit up at night.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of motorway

Noun

The new Stars arena will be located off the Dallas autobahn, more commonly called the Dallas North Tollway, which over the last decade has become one of the busiest main roads in DFW.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
Southbound on the autobahn, just shy of the halfway point to Munich, a 45‑minute detour east leads to Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei, brewing since 1050.

— David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

Definition of autobahn

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Crews will return to Lisle in the spring and fall to determine which parkway trees need to be replaced, and will do so for residents who lost trees in the storms, Elias said.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
In their parkway, too, Novack and Aggrey have sprinkled seeds from about two dozen native wildflowers.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of parkway

Noun

This project took the elevated section of Interstate 93, a six-lane highway completed in 1959 that ran through central Boston, and turned it into an underground expressway.

— Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 12 Aug. 2026
The firm noted that major bridges like the Donghai Bridge and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, as well as regional expressways, have reopened with standard speed limits restored.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of expressway

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