Examples of highway in a Sentence
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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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025
Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration developed standardized field sobriety tests in the late 1970s in an effort to improve the fatality rate on highways due to drunk driving, according to the Criminal Justice Institute.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Reduced graphene oxide is a high-speed highway for electrons, while the nickel-iron elements store charge through a fast pseudocapacitive mechanism.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2025
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Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025
Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration developed standardized field sobriety tests in the late 1970s in an effort to improve the fatality rate on highways due to drunk driving, according to the Criminal Justice Institute.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Reduced graphene oxide is a high-speed highway for electrons, while the nickel-iron elements store charge through a fast pseudocapacitive mechanism.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/highway. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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highway
noun
high·way
ˈhī-ˌwā 
: a public road
especially
: a main direct road
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