en route

Example Sentences

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Speaking to reporters on Friday en route to Washington, Trump said on arms sales: "I'll make a determination over the next fairly short period of time."

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

It’s the reset I reach for when I know groceries are en route and the counters feel a little gritty, a little sticky from a day of recipe testing.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Data about shipments already traveling on the water can give a preview for what’s en route.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

In October, Marimar Martinez, en route to a Chicago church to donate clothes, saw an unmarked vehicle she suspected was carrying federal agents.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

She had met Dad in Boston while she was en route to Europe on one of those well-chaperoned tours for fashionable young ladies of the ’nineties.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey