expressway

Example Sentences

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This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

A classic example was the Van Wyck Expressway, which Moses built in Queens in 1950.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024

Expressway traffic is especially heavy across China with the start of a five-day national holiday on Wednesday.

From New York Times • May 1, 2024

In Sonoma County, a tree early Sunday fell onto a home; in Palo Alto, a massive tree blocked the eastbound lanes of the Oregon Expressway.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2024

This, in a way, is what that officer on the Dan Ryan Expressway did as well.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell