How to Use freeway in a Sentence

freeway

noun
  • The bar was torn down in 1966 to make room for the freeway.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The vehicle first pulled over on the left side of the freeway, then to the right side.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a scene where all the cars have been abandoned on the freeway.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Here's what to know about the freeways that will be closed and how to avoid the traffic.
    Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • The driver later made a U-turn and went the wrong way on the freeway.
    Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Both sides of the freeway were closed for about six hours because of the standoff.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • She’d get stuck, find a small opening, go right up next to the freeway wall and step on it.
    Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The freeway portions that would be replaced date to 1974.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
  • Elena lie bleeding on the frigid ground as cars rushed by on the freeway.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Five suspects abandoned the car and took off on foot across a freeway.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 18 June 2024
  • The more powerful four-cylinder Cooper S achieves up to 23 mpg in the city and 30 mpg on the freeway.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Today, a dozen freeways snake across about 527 miles of L.A., and many more crisscross the county.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The vehicle was towed from the freeway on-ramp that the suspect had abandoned it on.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 May 2024
  • Evans lives south of LBJ but would like to be able to walk to her daughter and granddaughter’s home north of the freeway.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That part of the freeway was shut down for about 2½ hours as the scene was processed and the body removed, Marroquin said.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • When freeways are busiest:Does metro Phoenix have rush hour traffic?
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But that was news to people who were stuck on the freeway headed toward those bridges.
    oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But the suspects refused to stop and the chase ensued on the northbound 405 freeway, according to the NBPD.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 July 2024
  • Both directions of the freeway were closed as officers worked the scene.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Fencing will be torn out and raised to protect against the freeways, and the rest of the funding will go towards building the perimeter of the park.
    Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The trailhead has a small parking lot, with overflow parking a short walk away across the freeway bridge.
    Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Beaches that were once as wide as freeways are today more like two-lane roads.
    Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • Officers tried to get him out of the freeway, but the man fled off an exit ramp and ran west on Cactus Road.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • After three and a half hours, the truck will exit the freeway in Greenpoint, a neighborhood in the north of Houston.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Someone with a fire extinguisher ran from the other side of the freeway to put out the flames that were starting to rise from the van.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The freeway exits are dotted with the chain restaurants and hotels of Anytown, U.S.A.
    Colin Campbell, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The middle lane on the freeway is in fact where the system, like those of its competitors, seems to have a tendency to end up.
    Mark Andrews, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Highway self-driving Mercedes sells a car which will do self-driving on freeways in traffic jams.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Their pickup truck hit a tow truck in the outer lane of the freeway at high speed, which caused westbound lanes to shut down for several hours, as per the Arizona Department of Transportation.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024

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