How to Use beltway in a Sentence

beltway

noun
  • Her influence extends beyond the Beltway.
  • Felise added in the crash two victims were thrown from the inner loop to the outer loop of the beltway.
    Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
  • My guess is that many people inside the DC beltway have read this report.
    Bob Haber, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Troopers tell us the outer loop of the beltway is completely shut down.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Just north of the beltway, things are little more, well, tight, with the Ravens sitting at 19th with just under $14 million in room.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
  • To do it again at Morrow, just South of the I-285 beltway, Weaks needed a game-changer who would buy in quickly.
    oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Most of the swing precincts are in suburbs north and southeast of Phoenix, in an arc roughly described by a beltway route known as Loop 101.
    Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The jobs that were created that are lasting are the jobs that were created in that beltway swamp.
    Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
  • Widening the beltway in Prince George’s County would come later.
    Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
  • Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows is wrong — people outside the beltway do care about this misuse of office.
    Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • My heart goes out to the victims and the families affected by the tragic crash on the 695 beltway this afternoon.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There is not a single person outside the beltway who is engaged in this nonsense.
    William Cummings, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
  • This annual affair rocks and bops inside the 495 beltway this year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
  • True leadership is earned inside the beltway as well as inside the boardroom.
    David Wade, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Activists' pressure appears to be mounting in the beltway.
    David Downs, Esquire, 26 Apr. 2016
  • Planners also envisioned a multi-use area at the end of the beltway enclosed in glass and looking out at the water.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The difference between the two schools is Moeller has been on this stage seven times, whereas Deer Park has rarely left the Interstate 275 beltway.
    Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The proposal would create four toll lanes — two in each direction — on both Interstate 270 and the western part of the beltway.
    Brian Witte, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Skies are partly cloudy overnight and temperatures remain warm, near 80 downtown and in the mid-to-upper 70s outside of the beltway.
    Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 9 July 2017
  • In Roxbury, Boston had planned to build an inner beltway highway.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Baltimore is the superior squad in this battle of the beltway.
    Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Hawkins maintained the extension east wasn’t for Tavistock and was long-planned in the county as a beltway to help connect new growth to the airport and Medical City.
    Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • There are no major improvements in transit, but toll lanes are built on outer beltways, and another bridge is built to the Eastern Shore.
    Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The term occasionally even pops up outside the beltway.
    Jeremy Henderson, AL.com, 16 June 2017
  • Others, especially proposals for new roads, such as the beltway and even a short stub of toll road at Sanford’s airport, seem to progress in inches.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The state Department of Transportation is building that segment of beltway.
    Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The expressway loop around Orlando – the region’s beltway of nearly 112 miles – will have been completed all but for about a dozen miles in Lake and Seminole counties.
    Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Peak officials cited the location near the beltway and not far from downtown Baltimore as adding to the complex’s appeal.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But in the beltway, political Twitter is an omnipresent fact of your physical life.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 June 2018
  • This move by anti-crypto beltway forces seems intended to slow the growth of licensed crypto institutions in the U.S. and would raise many foundational questions.
    Caitlin Long, Forbes, 4 June 2022

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