motorway

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of motorway Since 2011, Turkish public-private partnerships have poured around $115 billion into motorways, bridges, ports, and airports to improve Turkey’s segment of that infrastructure. Mustafa Kutlay, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2025 The infrastructure is reasonable, but much of the route takes you alongside motorways. Craig Martin, Outside Online, 8 May 2025 But driving 200 miles on motorways, backroads, and through towns and cities, saw 2.7mi/kWh at best, and this was during warmer weather. Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Dad, a newsreader for the BBC, grew up in Caterham, a town near the M25 motorway that encircles London and prime Palace-supporting territory. Rebecca Lowe, New York Times, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for motorway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for motorway
Noun
  • With extreme heat currently gripping vast swathes of the United States and Europe, subjecting tens of millions of people to dangerous temperatures far above what is usual for this time of year, even Germany’s famed autobahn is buckling under the strain, requiring emergency repairs.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Beer plays Laura, a piano student at a music academy in Berlin, first seen in the opening shots on an autobahn overpass looking down at a river.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Hill said resort partners and others along the Strip encouraged the pilot and were intrigued about a version of an underground highway stretching to other parts of the city.
    Stuart Dyos, The Tennessean, 30 July 2025
  • According to the outlet, debris from the collision hit a Ford Fusion after the loose parts crossed into the left side of the two-lane highway.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Austin found land close to the new interstate and built a new drive-in, the Loner (1968–78), bringing the Duchess to a close in September 1968.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2025
  • Regulators said the proposal might have also slowed deliveries, hurt already-low driver pay and pushed more heavy truck traffic onto side streets instead of interstates.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • The carp escaped into the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway to travel north.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • Obama doesn't get nearly enough flack for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya, one of the most short-sighted and memory-holed American military actions in history that had the twofer effect of destroying that entire country while also opening up a superhighway of mass immigration into Europe.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • WisDOT's latest study proposes a more traditional intersection to connect with the freeway.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
  • The center, just off the 5 freeway on Culver Drive, now has the unique distinction of offering two Japanese grocery stores: Mitsuwa and Tokyo Central.
    Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the watch party at Haute Spot in Cedar Park, just down the road from where 50 Firefly operators monitored the landing.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • While stainless steel is durable, harsh chemicals and abrasive tools can compromise its protective coating, leading to discoloration and potential rust issues down the road.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • There’s also a Huracán Polizia version The Italian Highway Patrol uses a Huracán with police badging and a lightbar on the autostradas in and around Bologna.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Barreling down the autostrada, idling in front of our hotel, or stopping for gas, coffee, or red lights, the wagon drew constant admiration and approval.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Cruising at around 75 mph on high-speed autoroutes would incur a range penalty of close to 50%.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • So buyers who use their EVs for much long-distance cruising along Europe’s high-speed autoroutes will be less impressed by China’s products.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

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“Motorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motorway. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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