How to Use motorway in a Sentence

motorway

noun

• And then, in the middle of that, there’s this video of him trying to give away a luxury croissant on the motorway.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• At a motorway exit near Rome, farmer Paolo Pepponi was part of a crowd that blocked the road.
  — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• One branch slips under a motorway and out into fields of maize.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Freight trucks line up on the M20 motorway near Dover port in December.
  — NBC News, 27 Sep. 2021
• All of this makes the people who work at rest stops and motorway hotels useless.
  — vanityfair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
• What if the train is cancelled, the motorway is solid with traffic?
  — John Hudson, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• In the west of Belgium, near the French border, the A19 motorway ends in a four-lane, unfinished overpass.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• People were like, why are there skittles on the motorway?
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Adam works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a small and lonely life.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
• My fast-lane motorway test at legal high-speeds showed range was consumed at a 76.1% rate.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The motorway is now the centre of day-to-day human life, following the world’s regression back to coal and oil.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 6 June 2022
• The single-lane one-way street runs for a fair stretch alongside the motorway noise barrier.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• And as is befitting of such a rock god, a new sound system has been installed so Nicko can let his hair down on the motorway.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Ayub plays Adam, who works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a lonely life.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• The motorway, under repair, is scheduled to reopen in coming days for the first time in eight years.
  — Zeina Karam, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
• Today, it’s been replaced by a wide motorway with cars whizzing between north and south.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 7 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile my family and I packed our bags and headed to the coast -- a balmy 96F -- where traffic jams snaked back to the motorway and the ice cream trucks ran out of the sweet stuff by 10am.
  — Rosa Prince, CNN, 20 July 2022
• Users who called up the satellite view could see the famous spaceship by looking due east of the studio complex, just across the M3 motorway.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
• For tourists, motorways and chain-run service stations have long since taken over that role.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• The group, which is an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has caused havoc on the M25 motorway five times over the last two weeks.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• The official ceremony for the completion of the third portion of the six-mile motorway was held Dec. 30 of that year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• Part of me was susceptible to what was outside the pavement and beyond the motorway.
  — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Three people died and dozens were injured when the Amtrak train came off a bridge onto a motorway below.
  — Erik Larson and Pamela MacLean, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• The pedestrian bridges across the motorway were completely full with onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of the cortège.
  — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• This video captures the remarkable escape of a driver who hit a truck and spun 180 degrees on a motorway.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2018
• On Friday, the protesters in Belgrade blocked a key bridge and motorway in the capital to press their demands.
  — Jovana Gec, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• In Utrecht, in the Netherlands, a 12-lane motorway was replaced with canals and green space, restoring the original waterways that had been paved over years ago for roads.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Under a thick, black cloud at 3pm, the lights flickered on in São Paulo’s skyscrapers; on the motorways brake lights started to glow in the city’s bumper-to-bumper traffic, and many Paulistanos were worried.
  — The Economist, 24 Aug. 2019
• The system will now support speeds of up to 95km/h (59mph) on German motorways, a sign that the automaker is feeling bullish about its boundary-pushing technology.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2024
• During my test-drive period, the Y managed 3.4 miles per kWh on short start-stop urban trips, but nearly 4.1 miles per kWh in general including more continuous driving and some motorway speeds.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024