How to Use roadway in a Sentence

roadway

noun

• Police cleared the roadway for the parade.
• As the roadway curved back to the left, the vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• Both men were found in the roadway, and died at the scene, police said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The three-wheeler left the roadway, and both the driver and the toddler were thrown off.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• The plane crashed in a wooded area near the roadway around 11 a.m. Sunday.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 July 2023
• Exit the roadway and park in a safe area away from traffic to view the eclipse.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
• Look for a safe place to pull completely off the paved portion of the roadway.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
• Many died at their campsites, in roadways or in the river.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• Cars rumble by on a riverside roadway to their left, and to the right shoppers flit in and out of a row of tiny shops.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
• Long term, Farmer said changes likely need to be made to roadways themselves.
  — Max Filby, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2024
• Arkansas State Police reported that the roadway was clear and dry at the time of the wreck.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
• The strong currents from flash floods can pull drivers off roadways.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• Locals are used to the changing scenery, and bulldozers are parked at the ready to get the roadways open again quickly.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
• Police said the driver was crossing the roadway at a green light around 8:42 a.m. local time when Braden stepped in front of the car’s path.
  — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
• The climate protesters were dragged hundreds of feet into the roadway by the car.
  — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The bus exited the north side of the roadway, struck an embankment and flipped, troopers wrote in the report.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• Hendrix said Knight waited for the victim, who was driving, to come down the roadway.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the video, the goats run out of a forested area onto a roadway as police walk behind the animals.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• The southbound car veered to the right, crashed off the overpass at East Naples Street and landed on the roadway below, the agency reported.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• As the calf struggled to cross the river, the man approached the animal and pushed it up from the river and onto a roadway, the release says.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 May 2023
• The Chrysler left the roadway and struck a pedestrian -- believed to be a homeless man -- who was on the sidewalk, police said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• But roadways full of four-ton hunks of metal moving at sports-car speeds are also less safe.
  — Tom Randall, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• The council directed city staff to replace the circle system with stop signs on each of the three roadways.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Caltrans crews were still clearing snow off the roadway Monday.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• In Tahoe City, where there were reports of brief power outages, the streets were mostly empty of cars as snow piled up the roadways.
  — Megan Michelson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Some areas in New Jersey received close to half a foot of rain, which flooded roadways.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 27 June 2023
• The motorcycle then veered off the roadway and struck a tree, officials said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
• The repair work will control damage at the site and involve paving and restriping the affected area of the roadway.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• In order to transport people and goods to and from the West, a new type of roadway was needed: the Transcontinental Railroad.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• This trend exists on top of what is already a growing gap in roadway deaths between the U.S. and other countries.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024