How to Use en route in a Sentence

en route

adverb or adjective
  • Their bodies were en route to the U.S., the Marine Corps said.
    — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The Brewers scored five runs en route to their first win of the 2025 campaign.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The light my scope had caught had been en route to us since around the time the first dinosaurs emerged on Earth.
    — PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • Granite Hills went on to score three runs in the sixth and four more in the seventh en route to a 13-7 win.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Ernest is impressed by the scenery en route: the prairie expanse, the floating clouds in the distance.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The Stars scored five runs in the bottom of the first en route to taking the win by the 10-run rule in just five innings.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
  • The woman left while officers were en route to the house.
    — cleveland, 15 Dec. 2021
  • When Ludwig is caught en route, Rolf and Núria are left on their own.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The ship was en route to Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the time of the accident.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The context was the death of a six-month-old baby from Guinea who drowned in the Mediterranean en route to Italy.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The sun is en route, and with it, a hairstyle that is every bit as light and breezy as the spring season.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This is a problem that’s en route to being solved, said Doricko.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • While en route, the officer learned that the man had left the scene and was walking north on Brecksville Road.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The 26-year-old was en route to a performance in Caratinga.
    — Katherine Love, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Da Silva sank a 3 from the left wing late in the first quarter en route to 8 points with 3 rebounds.
    — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
  • All the pieces were well-wrapped, so nothing got scratched or dented en route.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 25 July 2024
  • Officials said the ships were en route but would take a few days to arrive.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But the Huskies held their opponent without a field goal the rest of the way en route to the victory.
    — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Miller, after all, led the Gators with 20.4 points en route to an All-Arizona nod a year ago.
    — The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Lakers won to take a 3-1 lead en route to the dynamic duo’s first title.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Mohsen looked like Hercules and fought like him en route to the easy victory.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • So the Russia Squad seemed like a safe place to dump an agent en route to retirement.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Game 1 of the series kept that trend, as each tallied two points en route to a 4-2 comeback win.
    — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • In the playoffs, the offense played at a high level as well en route to a Super Bowl win.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • According to the Kansas City Star, the students were en route to an away game.
    — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In the second quarter, Brown caught a short third-down pass and broke three tackles en route to a 27-yard gain.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Monk scored 29 points in the second half, the most in a single half of his career, en route to a season-high 39.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2024
  • But while the flight was en route, and the passengers slept or watched their screens, everything changed on the ground.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Also among the guests was a boy who had been thwarted by traffic en route to last year’s garden party, People reported.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
  • Many sellers might not even realize it until their next production run is en route, and their profit disappears in customs.
    — Tom Wicky, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025

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