How to Use expressway in a Sentence
expressway
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The change renames a 17-mile stretch of the expressway from the North to the South Sides on the outer drive.
— Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021 -
Crews were in the process of draining the expressway and towing the cars.
— CBS News, 3 Sep. 2021 -
But the soundtrack to the Getty is the 405 [expressway].
— Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022 -
So why even mention the west side of the expressway at all?
— Victoria Pelletier, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 -
Bugs slink through the cracks in thin-walled houses on the edges of expressways.
— Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019 -
Since the 1920s, plans have been made and scrapped for an expressway around the city center.
— Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024 -
Here’s a look at the video from the expressway after NOPD used gas to disperse the crowd.
— NBC News, 4 June 2020 -
This is not the first time this summer deputies received a call to that area of the expressway.
— Jennifer Walter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018 -
The Kia was then struck by the Chrysler that had been traveling on the I-75 North expressway.
— Rosana Hughes, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023 -
Sergeant Bryce Bezdek was on duty in 2007 when struck and dragged by a car on the expressway.
— Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati.com, 2 Aug. 2019 -
That's when the expressway was built and the decline began.
— Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020 -
The low, rambling ranch is in Franklin, just a couple miles off the I-696 expressway.
— Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2018 -
At the end, heaps of totaled cars and trailers stretched more than 1,000 feet down the expressway.
— Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022 -
But does that mean the Bears should hold his next driving lesson on the expressway?
— Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017 -
The other day, I was stuck on the expressway, heading home to Hingham.
— Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019 -
Nutter's body was found left by a ramp along the Edens expressway in Wilmette.
— Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 19 Aug. 2017 -
The station is very close to the Cumberland exit of the I-90 expressway.
— Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022 -
Walker exited the expressway, jumped out of the car and ran.
— Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022 -
Johnston Square hugs the eastern edge of the Jones Falls Valley and its expressway.
— Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024 -
The hole was created by a sledgehammer, the release said, in the back of the building which faces the expressway.
— Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018 -
Ten bridges over the expressway, containing nine cross streets, were rebuilt as part of the project.
— Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022 -
The expressway sped suburbanites in their cars in and out of Erie.
— New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Built on the edge of the city's main expressway, the mall had suffered previous subsoil slides.
— Frank Miles, Fox News, 12 July 2018 -
The line of people waiting for food runs between the expressway and a parking lot.
— New York Times, 9 June 2022 -
That means cars would be able to go around slower-moving buses if they’re added to the expressway.
— Brian Eason, ajc, 15 Dec. 2021 -
The Edens took Chicago into the age of the expressway, behind schedule.
— Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022 -
But only 15 percent of the expressway is finished, even though one-third of the budget has been spent.
— Alastair Jamieson /, NBC News, 23 June 2018 -
There is just one problem: An expressway runs through it.
— Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2017 -
The state agency, which operates a network of expressways in the region and charges drivers to use them, strives to provide motorists with safe, clean roadways in return for their tolls.
— Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024 -
The transportation project will turn a 3.6-mile segment of Grant Line Road from a rural two-lane road into a modern four-lane expressway with a path for bicycles and pedestrians.
— Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 17 July 2024
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