state highway
Example Sentences
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In 1926, Cyrus Avery, a Tulsa businessman and state highway commissioner, led the creation of Route 66.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Houses that sit along parts of the major state highway have also been hit by the Palisades fire, including in the city of Malibu.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
Instead, they say an elevated path down a median of Hawthorne Boulevard, a six-lane Caltrans-owned state highway — another route Metro is considering — is a better option.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024
The so-called slip-out, which stranded more than a thousand motorists overnight along the famous state highway, was the product of winter storms that for months have saturated California.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024
Our house was on a corner where the state highway turned east toward the mine.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
