highway

noun

high·way ˈhī-ˌwā

: a public way

especially : a main direct road

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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Six people, including two children, are dead after a person driving a pickup truck the wrong way on a Mississippi highway collided with a car. —

Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024 The highway administration approves the plans; state and local jurisdictions oversee construction. —

Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024 The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base. —

Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024 With a population of approximately 800,000 people and only one main highway snaking through its mountains and valleys — the capital city, Thimphu, is the only one in the world without a traffic light — Bhutan remains relatively unexplored. —

Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for highway