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Recent Examples of highway Philippe Myers knelt on the side of Canada’s busiest highway and muttered a few curse words about his luck. Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025 The closure follows a fatal accident on the northbound lanes of the turnpike that shut down the highway on Thursday night. Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025 Is the West Side Highway south of 57th Street considered a highway or a surface street? Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025 Winter storm freezes upper Midwest A fast-moving winter storm brought snow, ice, strong winds and bitter cold to much of the upper Midwest, snarling traffic in the Twin Cities and forcing North Dakota officials to shut down an interstate highway. arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for highway 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highway
Noun
  • The Capitol Police have stepped up security for the event, closing roads and increasing patrols around the Capitol grounds.
    Kate Selig, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Crews will be working around the clock, but icy roads and downed trees are slowing progress.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Whether tearing up muddy roads, crawling up high-clearance 4×4 routes, trying to park my car in deep snow banks, or cruising freeways at 75 mph, the KO3 has always felt like a good choice.
    Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 2 Jan. 2025
  • How To Watch the Rose Parade 2025 via Live Stream The 2025 Rose Parade will be streamed live on YouTube for free by Pasadena Star-News, with the stream based just before participants make their way below the 210 freeway bridge.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, the target customer is young people who are active in a street community and seek out the store for its refined, exclusive selection of the world’s top footwear brands, from running sneakers to lifestyle shoes, technical footwear and more.
    Andrea Onate, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Florida native’s two career IndyCar wins have both come on street circuits (Long Beach, Nashville – 2023) and the 2021 INDY NXT by Firestone Series Champion made it to Victory Circle in his debut INDY NXT race on the iconic 14-turn Florida street course.
    Bruce Martin, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From the second half of the 20th century, pioneering thinkers such as American author and activist Jane Jacobs and Danish architect Jan Gehl began highlighting the inhuman way our cities were being shaped, with boring constructions, barren spaces and brutal expressways.
    Thomas Heatherwick, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The expressway runs from the regional capital Urumqi in northern Xinjiang to Yuli County in southern Xinjiang.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That triggered a new mandatory evacuation order for an area from Sunset Boulevard to Encino Reservoir, and from the 405 Freeway west to Mandeville Canyon, with sections of the thoroughfare remaining closed to ward off excess traffic in the West Los Angeles area.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The once-leafy thoroughfares known as the Alphabet Streets now look like a nuclear bomb detonated at the Chase bank in the nearby shopping village.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Since Week 8, Stafford has targeted Nacua on nearly 40 percent of his routes, the most of any receiver in that span, according to Next Gen Stats.
    Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Shorter runs, like one-star and zero-star, demand constant perfection amid routes that have been hyper optimized over time by others.
    Patricia Hernandez, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Officers arrived to find the motorcyclist unconscious in the roadway.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Video along the Pacific Coast Highway showed widespread destruction of homes and businesses along the famed roadway.
    Jaimie Ding, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the city's oldest multifamily structures line the boulevard in one of its densest neighborhoods.
    Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The event, started by journalist and walking aficionado Michael Schneider, has hundreds of Angelenos trekking the length of an iconic boulevard every November on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highway. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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