Synonyms of highway
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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Ten feet of flooding would cripple highways along Manhattan’s edges and damage vital infrastructure, including transit links to the airports.
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Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.
—Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
At the same time, increasingly large cohorts of baby boomers hit the labor market just as spending on defense, space exploration and infrastructure like interstate highways and dams fell.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's highway patrol on a rural road in southeast Alabama's Pike County when the crash occurred late Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email Sunday.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
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Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.
—Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
At the same time, increasingly large cohorts of baby boomers hit the labor market just as spending on defense, space exploration and infrastructure like interstate highways and dams fell.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's highway patrol on a rural road in southeast Alabama's Pike County when the crash occurred late Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email Sunday.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/highway. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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highway
noun
high·way
ˈhī-ˌwā 
: a public road
especially
: a main direct road
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