I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.
the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city
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Several local roads and highways, including the Sunrise Highway, were closed as firefighters battled the blazes.—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2025 Up the narrow state highways, the landscape shifts to farmland, with grazing cattle and tall stalks of green.—Mariah Tyler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2025 The journey begins along the coastal highway before turning inland toward the Sierra de las Nieves National Park.—Shelby Knick, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 The collision occurred after Zachary J. Roslin, 33, who was driving a 2007 Freightliner towing a tanker trailer, left a gas station and merged onto the highway, Patch reported, citing a preliminary police report.—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for highway
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of highway was
before the 12th century
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