highway

Example Sentences

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In some previous years, the roads around the festival have become a highway to hell, with traffic management plans drawn up to keep festival-goers and Leicestershire locals on the move.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

After Route 66 was decommissioned as a highway in 1985, about 85% of the old route remained in use, often as small-town thoroughfares, country highways and frontage roads alongside Interstate 40.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

In December, a stone highway marker honoring Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, suddenly appeared in Marion Square, planted alongside a major thoroughfare in a hub of picnics, farmers markets and celebrations in Charleston, S.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Since its opening in 1937, the highway has been vulnerable to landslides and shifting ground, operating on a longstanding cycle of landslide, closure, repair, reopening and then another landslide, or sometimes a fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Every night we stay in the same dreary kind of motel off the highway, with a TV bolted to the wall and multiple locks on the door.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy