How to Use autobahn in a Sentence

autobahn

noun

• Even a stretch of the autobahn near Essen will be closed to diesels.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• And once, a refugee who took his bike onto the autobahn.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 30 June 2018
• Don’t even think about taking that Maserati off road, but wow does that car move on the autobahn.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• And thats where tourists looking to speed through the stretches of autobahn sans speed limits come in.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
• Think more about road trips with the occasional blast away from a toll booth, or a brief top-speed run on the autobahn.
  — Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
• The traffic makes rush hour in Los Angeles seem like the autobahn.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Off the autobahn, the Sport Classic still felt very Turbo-esque.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2022
• The road between the German autobahn and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tiny hometown is flanked with a canopy of trees.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2021
• Over the border in Germany, the days of screaming down the autobahn at 200kph could be over, if the Greens end up in government and introduce a speed limit.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• His challenge now will be to reenter the NHL autobahn at midseason from a standing start.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• Spooling up to 125 miles an hour—on the German autobahn, of course—is utterly effortless in this all-wheel-drive sports car.
  — Peter Robinson, Car and Driver, 23 July 2023
• In Germany, speed limits were imposed on parts of the autobahn because extreme heat can cause roads to buckle.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Top speed in the Porsche Taycan electric sport sedan arrives with very little fuss on Germany's autobahn.
  — Wired, 28 Sep. 2019
• Study roads and major interchanges and decide whether to take the faster autobahn/strada/route/cesta or a slower scenic route.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• But driving on the autobahn, long stretches of which forswear any speed limit at all, can be a chilling experience for the timid.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• Drive modes cover everything from dropping off the babysitter to slicing up the autobahn.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• The northbound lanes of the A14 were temporarily shut down, but photos from the scene indicate hot chocolate didn’t spill onto the autobahn.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• Still, for drivers who draw pleasure from the kind of precision and straight-line stability that come from autobahn breeding, the Golf does fairly well.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
• Parts of Germany have already issued speed restrictions for the autobahn.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 27 June 2019
• An 8-year-old boy is unscathed after taking his parents' car for a joyride on Germany's high-speed autobahn early Thursday.
  — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2019
• On an empty autobahn, 110 mph is a comfortable cruising speed.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2020
• Visitors to Germany quickly learn the thrill, or terror, of autobahn driving.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
• For the many Germans who have not yet been vaccinated, the key to Covid freedom has come from the end of a nasal swab, and rapid-test centers have multiplied at a speed usually reserved for the country’s autobahn.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Now, the climate crisis is prompting Germans to rethink their relationship with the autobahn, long feted as the crème de la crème of highway systems.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• The second-best cars often feel more harmonious, better balanced, at ease with real life rather than 200-mph autobahn fantasies.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2018
• On the unlimited sections of the autobahn, the 5 N cruises along at a drama-free 160 mph with near-perfect on-center steering calibration.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• Barreling down speed-limitless sections of an autobahn is a less relevant test for most of our audience.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 May 2022
• Take, for example, Germany’s recent attempt at introducing a toll system on the autobahn that only applied to non-Germans, which was predictably nixed by the EU courts.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• That all three were created in Germany should come as no surprise: only the land of the unlimited-speed autobahn could even conceive of building sports sedans as explosive and exclusive as these.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
• The road to eurozone renewal envisioned by French President Emmanuel Macron won’t be a speedy autobahn.
  — William Horobin, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024