How to Use highway in a Sentence

highway

noun

• I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.
• The spill closed part of the highway as crews cleared the cans and cheese.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• There were cracks in the road and a smashed car on the side of the highway.
  — Eyad Kourdi With Ivana Kottasova, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
• Streaks of dark blood ran from deep in the brush to the shoulder of the highway.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• The teen suspects fled on foot and ran off the side of the highway.
  — Megan Sims, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• With your job in the rearview mirror, and the open highway ahead, how about a road trip?
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
• The land is visible both from the highway and the lakeshore road.
  — Alissa Gary, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• The person made it to the edge of the highway as the car is seen taking flight behind them.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 31 May 2023
• More highways, toll roads, and bridges have been built.
  — Salil Tripathi, TIME, 5 June 2024
• The headlights don't have much reach on a dark desert highway.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
• The highway will be closed at 6 p.m. nightly and reopen around 7 a.m. the next day.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• One side of the highway is all cancer; the other side all crazy.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• The car was parked on the left southbound shoulder of the highway near the Campbell Drive exit.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• More From The Post Man faints while driving 70 mph on highway.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• But there was once a time when these highways were new and free-flowing.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
• To the southwest of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces have fought hard to protect the T504 highway.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Again, the ditch was near a highway and only a short distance outside the city.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 21 May 2024
• The new tax will funnel at least $38 million in new money to the state highway fund.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• Slow down and take in more of the view at one of the highway's four overlooks that provide a glimpse of the mountains and valleys.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
• The highway is also closed from from Weldon to State Route 14.
  — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The middle and center lanes of the highway were shut down until the crash was cleared after 9 a.m.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
• Today, a bright pink bridge stretches from the winding highway to the rolling hills on the other side of the river.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
• The highway was closed for about 30 minutes after the crash, police said.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• The area is also out of view of the interstate highway, Fifield said.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• The city said during the blasting, all lanes of I-565 will be closed until debris is cleared from the highway.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 11 Feb. 2023
• Due to the remote area of the hike, the landing zone was established by a nearby highway.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 June 2024
• Long caravans of cars choked the main highway for days and those who couldn’t take to the road lined up for emergency flights out of the city.
  — David Sharp and Jim Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• On Friday, a huge fire broke out at one of the petrochemical plants across the highway from their home.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• While rounding a blind curve on the highway, Nardini collided head-on with a car traveling in the other direction.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
• The road was famously featured in the scene where a highway patrol officer finds Janet Leigh’s character, Marion Crane, sleeping in her car.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024