How to Use expressway in a Sentence

expressway

noun
  • The change renames a 17-mile stretch of the expressway from the North to the South Sides on the outer drive.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • Crews were in the process of draining the expressway and towing the cars.
    CBS News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But the soundtrack to the Getty is the 405 [expressway].
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022
  • So why even mention the west side of the expressway at all?
    Victoria Pelletier, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Bugs slink through the cracks in thin-walled houses on the edges of expressways.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Since the 1920s, plans have been made and scrapped for an expressway around the city center.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Here’s a look at the video from the expressway after NOPD used gas to disperse the crowd.
    NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • This is not the first time this summer deputies received a call to that area of the expressway.
    Jennifer Walter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
  • The Kia was then struck by the Chrysler that had been traveling on the I-75 North expressway.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Sergeant Bryce Bezdek was on duty in 2007 when struck and dragged by a car on the expressway.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • That's when the expressway was built and the decline began.
    Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • At the end, heaps of totaled cars and trailers stretched more than 1,000 feet down the expressway.
    Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The other day, I was stuck on the expressway, heading home to Hingham.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • The station is very close to the Cumberland exit of the I-90 expressway.
    Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Walker exited the expressway, jumped out of the car and ran.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • Johnston Square hugs the eastern edge of the Jones Falls Valley and its expressway.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Ten bridges over the expressway, containing nine cross streets, were rebuilt as part of the project.
    Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Built on the edge of the city's main expressway, the mall had suffered previous subsoil slides.
    Frank Miles, Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • The line of people waiting for food runs between the expressway and a parking lot.
    New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • That means cars would be able to go around slower-moving buses if they’re added to the expressway.
    Brian Eason, ajc, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The Edens took Chicago into the age of the expressway, behind schedule.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • There could be smooth expressway driving off in the distance.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The helicopter hit the ground onto its belly in a grassy area next to the expressway, Turner said.
    Amy Lieu, Fox News, 8 July 2018
  • Most of the school showed up at 4am to get the statue, driving down the expressway with the head over the front of the pickup and the feet almost touching the ground in the back with a tarp over the middle.
    Julia A. Morales, Seventeen, 1 Mar. 2023
  • After the Place de la Concorde, Paul sped onto an expressway along the Seine.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • So far that hasn't extended to the expressway end of Tulane.
    Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • That monitor, on the edge of this 1,300-acre complex of steel and pipe, is across an expressway from schools, parks, a strip mall and hundreds of homes.
    NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Pave over the graveyards (parking lots for bones) with expressways.
    Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The heart of the Norwood Lateral construction is the rehabilitation of three bridges that make up parts of the expressway.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 11 May 2024
  • The state agency, which operates a network of expressways in the region and charges drivers to use them, strives to provide motorists with safe, clean roadways in return for their tolls.
    Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024

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