How to Use freeway in a Sentence

freeway

noun

• The driver later made a U-turn and went the wrong way on the freeway.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• She’d get stuck, find a small opening, go right up next to the freeway wall and step on it.
  — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• The freeway portions that would be replaced date to 1974.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
• Elena lie bleeding on the frigid ground as cars rushed by on the freeway.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 Apr. 2024
• Today, a dozen freeways snake across about 527 miles of L.A., and many more crisscross the county.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• When freeways are busiest:Does metro Phoenix have rush hour traffic?
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Both directions of the freeway were closed as officers worked the scene.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024
• Beaches that were once as wide as freeways are today more like two-lane roads.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Someone with a fire extinguisher ran from the other side of the freeway to put out the flames that were starting to rise from the van.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
• The freeway exits are dotted with the chain restaurants and hotels of Anytown, U.S.A.
  — Colin Campbell, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The middle lane on the freeway is in fact where the system, like those of its competitors, seems to have a tendency to end up.
  — Mark Andrews, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• That's when the Dodge minivan rams the Alfa Romeo into the shoulder of the freeway in a scene worthy of a Hollywood stunt.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Rodriguez was walking in the middle of the eastbound lanes on the freeway when the vehicle struck her east of 8th Street in Banning.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• As the driver passes the blaze on the opposite side of the freeway an explosion can clearly be heard.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• It’s planned for a huge vacant block just across the freeway from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
• Those days are during Padres home games, as 10th Avenue is a main entrance from the freeway and toward the ballpark.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
• My husband pulled back onto the freeway and drove to the emergency entrance.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• Close to an hour later, the department said the freeway's westbound lanes were closed at the Loop 101 Pima Freeway in Tempe.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
• The tire went onto the northbound side of the freeway, striking the Clarkston man's vehicle on its windshield.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2023
• For 20 years, the National Park Service researched the exact spot where the freeway overpass should go.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• Social media posts show the woman in the buff, firing from the shoulder of the freeway with a pistol and then walking across traffic.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• The investigation caused the freeway to be closed for over 11 hours, according to Fox 2.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
• The idea for a new freeway connection has been tossed about for decades in Anchorage, but the high costs of construction and public concerns have stood in the way.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• This time, there was no slow-speed freeway chase with Simpson threatening suicide in the backseat of a white Ford Bronco.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• At least one caller reported that a pedestrian was struck on the freeway.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2024
• The other cats now feed near an overgrown grassland, attractive to birds and coyotes, that is bordered by the freeway and by a fence with a large hole in it.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Velasquez crossed multiple freeways with his father just to snap a few photos of the buildings.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
• If Gallen were in Los Angeles, there would be freeway billboards extolling his virtues.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• The solution came in the form of a maintenance yard for freeways that was discovered by a location scout.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
• Officers chased the suspect for several miles before the pursuit went onto the freeway where a deputy caused the suspect’s car to crash.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024