How to Use lane in a Sentence

lane

noun
  • She moved to the outside lane.
  • The truck's driver kept changing lanes.
  • The only closure now is the left turn lanes on 146th Street.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The car then takes over the steering and changes lanes on its own, BMW said in a news release.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • Cops had closed off the downtown lanes, where the fire was, but cars still cruised uptown.
    Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Lakers scored 86 points in the paint — making only four shots outside of the lane.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The lane will be closed for 11 days as part of work being done on the Auxiliary Lanes Project.
    oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • In its place is one lane of new pavement that must have been laid down in the past couple of days.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • Laine and the Hyundai driver collided in the eastbound lanes.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Traffic soon came to a halt before the northbound lanes of the highway gave way.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • The westbound lanes of Interstate 10 near Tonopah were closed after a crash blocked part of the road.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Players can sign up for the league or reserve a lane for open play online at gatheringplacebrewing.com/curling.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, but the DOT says that two lanes will remain open in each direction.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
  • Police said in the affidavit that the Hyundai was in a travel lane and had bullet holes in the trunk and the rear window.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The caller said a white Ford F-150 pickup truck had been swerving across lanes on the road and run into a ditch.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
  • The software may not be used at every TSA lane in these airports.
    Shira Ovide, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • Soon after, the northbound lanes of the highway crumbled.
    Time, 11 June 2023
  • Both lanes were cleared around 9:30 a.m., but bridge traffic wasn’t back to normal for a couple of hours, Langlais said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Starbucks wanted to build a drive-through lane and needed to remove the oak tree behind the store.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Charles has been inside his home, a snug stone cottage on a narrow lane.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • During Rock the Block, one lane east and one west will remain open to traffic on Mayfield Road.
    cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And more bike lanes are coming for next year’s Paris Olympics – part of an effort to halve the event’s carbon footprint.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The two right lanes of south I-805 were closed for about three and a half hours during the on-scene investigation.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Cars abruptly switched lanes and drivers hit their brakes.
    Alex Koller, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Tons of cyclists had to dodge and weave because that moped driver was taking up both lanes.
    John Surico, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Cities are adapting, with longer bike lane networks and complete streets.
    Michael Barnard, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And Scott has struggled to carve out his own lane despite strong fundraising early on.
    WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Both lanes of the bridge were closed for about two hours because of the demonstration, according to police.
    NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In Milan, the small storefront is on a quiet lane not far from the San Babila metro station.
    Laura May Todd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But Ecorse Creek, no wider than a traffic lane for much of its length, drains dozens of square miles in key Downriver areas.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024

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