How to Use autobahn in a Sentence

autobahn

noun

• Even a stretch of the autobahn near Essen will be closed to diesels.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• And once, a refugee who took his bike onto the autobahn.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 30 June 2018
• Don’t even think about taking that Maserati off road, but wow does that car move on the autobahn.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• And thats where tourists looking to speed through the stretches of autobahn sans speed limits come in.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
• Think more about road trips with the occasional blast away from a toll booth, or a brief top-speed run on the autobahn.
  — Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
• The road between the German autobahn and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tiny hometown is flanked with a canopy of trees.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2021
• Over the border in Germany, the days of screaming down the autobahn at 200kph could be over, if the Greens end up in government and introduce a speed limit.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• His challenge now will be to reenter the NHL autobahn at midseason from a standing start.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• In Germany, speed limits were imposed on parts of the autobahn because extreme heat can cause roads to buckle.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Top speed in the Porsche Taycan electric sport sedan arrives with very little fuss on Germany's autobahn.
  — Wired, 28 Sep. 2019
• Study roads and major interchanges and decide whether to take the faster autobahn/strada/route/cesta or a slower scenic route.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• But driving on the autobahn, long stretches of which forswear any speed limit at all, can be a chilling experience for the timid.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• Drive modes cover everything from dropping off the babysitter to slicing up the autobahn.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• The northbound lanes of the A14 were temporarily shut down, but photos from the scene indicate hot chocolate didn’t spill onto the autobahn.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• Parts of Germany have already issued speed restrictions for the autobahn.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 27 June 2019
• An 8-year-old boy is unscathed after taking his parents' car for a joyride on Germany's high-speed autobahn early Thursday.
  — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2019
• On an empty autobahn, 110 mph is a comfortable cruising speed.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2020
• Visitors to Germany quickly learn the thrill, or terror, of autobahn driving.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
• For the many Germans who have not yet been vaccinated, the key to Covid freedom has come from the end of a nasal swab, and rapid-test centers have multiplied at a speed usually reserved for the country’s autobahn.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Now, the climate crisis is prompting Germans to rethink their relationship with the autobahn, long feted as the crème de la crème of highway systems.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• The second-best cars often feel more harmonious, better balanced, at ease with real life rather than 200-mph autobahn fantasies.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2018
• Barreling down speed-limitless sections of an autobahn is a less relevant test for most of our audience.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 May 2022
• Take, for example, Germany’s recent attempt at introducing a toll system on the autobahn that only applied to non-Germans, which was predictably nixed by the EU courts.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• That all three were created in Germany should come as no surprise: only the land of the unlimited-speed autobahn could even conceive of building sports sedans as explosive and exclusive as these.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
• The road to eurozone renewal envisioned by French President Emmanuel Macron won’t be a speedy autobahn.
  — William Horobin, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• On the autobahn, who can resist stomping the accelerator?
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Saxony-Anhalt, a state in the center of Germany, issued temporary speed limits on two sections of the country’s famous autobahn, as engineers fear the heat could lead to minor road damage as the asphalt expands and buckles.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 26 June 2019
• But after talks in November, the parliament was able to arrange a different toll to be imposed on infrequent autobahn motorists, so that they wouldn't be faced with an annual fee for a short road excursion.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
• After coal there was exhausted, digging began on the other side of the autobahn at Garzweiler II in 2006, with plans to displace another dozen communities and thousands of residents.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• Earlier this year officials rejected attempts by campaigners to mandate a speed limit on the autobahn.
  — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024