parkway

noun

Definition of parkwaynext
as in interstate

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Recent Examples of parkway As Mike was driving home, his father called to say a car accident shut down the parkway. — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 27 July 2026 The parkway was evacuated Saturday evening while droves of people were still in line to enter due to approaching thunderstorms. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 6 July 2026 Some of the parkway’s most spectacular stretches can be found here in the Tar Heel State, especially just south of Asheville. — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026 In October 2025, the Sacramento City Council approved a plan to close the longest gap in the parkway. — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for parkway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parkway
  1. interstate
  2. bypass
  3. beltway
  4. superhighway
  5. highway
  6. motorway
  7. autobahn
  8. boulevard
Noun
  • Off to the side, an idle editor (Matt Braunger) takes in the eye-level view of vehicles skittering down the interstate just outside.
    — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The interstate has since reopened to two lanes of traffic in each direction, but construction on the bridges continues, with the work expected to wrap up in March 2027.
    — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of interstate
Noun
  • Metro did not say how long the bypass would last, but said customers traveling in both directions should expect delays.
    — Thomas Mates, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026
  • For most of their lives, the tracks were a sleepy industrial bypass known as the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of bypass
Noun
  • Over 85% of federal employees live outside of the Washington, DC, beltway, with states like Florida, Texas and California hubs for more than 100,000 workers each, government data shows.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • And that car then made a corner and slammed into a concrete jersey barrier on the beltway.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Definition of beltway
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
  • Over the course of the holiday, just under a quarter of cars traveling on China’s highways were EVs — up 33% from a year earlier.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Russian outlet Izvestia reported on Sunday that Moscow is upgrading existing rail crossings and considering new highways to handle growing bilateral trade.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • Germany and Italy expanded motorway networks—the Autobahn and the autostrada—laying the foundations for the automobile’s privileged position in this modernity.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier in August, five teenagers were killed in a two-vehicle collision in Ireland after driving a car the wrong way down a motorway.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 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
Noun
  • The developers have sought an exception to rules around how much parking can front a nearby boulevard, and will be expected to provide extra landscaping and screening to buffer the parking from nearby properties.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Getting the new library open isn’t as simple, though, as simply trucking boxes of books down the boulevard.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of boulevard

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