How to Use motorway in a Sentence

motorway

noun

• And then, in the middle of that, there’s this video of him trying to give away a luxury croissant on the motorway.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• One branch slips under a motorway and out into fields of maize.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Freight trucks line up on the M20 motorway near Dover port in December.
  — NBC News, 27 Sep. 2021
• All of this makes the people who work at rest stops and motorway hotels useless.
  — vanityfair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
• What if the train is cancelled, the motorway is solid with traffic?
  — John Hudson, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• In the west of Belgium, near the French border, the A19 motorway ends in a four-lane, unfinished overpass.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• People were like, why are there skittles on the motorway?
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Adam works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a small and lonely life.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
• My fast-lane motorway test at legal high-speeds showed range was consumed at a 76.1% rate.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The motorway is now the centre of day-to-day human life, following the world’s regression back to coal and oil.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 6 June 2022
• The single-lane one-way street runs for a fair stretch alongside the motorway noise barrier.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• And as is befitting of such a rock god, a new sound system has been installed so Nicko can let his hair down on the motorway.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• The motorway, under repair, is scheduled to reopen in coming days for the first time in eight years.
  — Zeina Karam, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
• Today, it’s been replaced by a wide motorway with cars whizzing between north and south.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 7 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile my family and I packed our bags and headed to the coast -- a balmy 96F -- where traffic jams snaked back to the motorway and the ice cream trucks ran out of the sweet stuff by 10am.
  — Rosa Prince, CNN, 20 July 2022
• Users who called up the satellite view could see the famous spaceship by looking due east of the studio complex, just across the M3 motorway.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
• For tourists, motorways and chain-run service stations have long since taken over that role.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• The group, which is an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has caused havoc on the M25 motorway five times over the last two weeks.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• The official ceremony for the completion of the third portion of the six-mile motorway was held Dec. 30 of that year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• Part of me was susceptible to what was outside the pavement and beyond the motorway.
  — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Three people died and dozens were injured when the Amtrak train came off a bridge onto a motorway below.
  — Erik Larson and Pamela MacLean, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• The pedestrian bridges across the motorway were completely full with onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of the cortège.
  — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• This video captures the remarkable escape of a driver who hit a truck and spun 180 degrees on a motorway.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2018
• On Friday, the protesters in Belgrade blocked a key bridge and motorway in the capital to press their demands.
  — Jovana Gec, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• Under a thick, black cloud at 3pm, the lights flickered on in São Paulo’s skyscrapers; on the motorways brake lights started to glow in the city’s bumper-to-bumper traffic, and many Paulistanos were worried.
  — The Economist, 24 Aug. 2019
• There’s some major funding going into the motorway that runs along the outskirts.
  — Alexandra Genova, Time, 22 May 2017
• The best way to get around the battlefield privately is by car, as many of the sites are easily accessible from the A29 or A1 motorways.
  — Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
• Ghazni is on the Kabul-Kandahar motorway linking Kabul to militant strongholds in the south of the country.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Named after the stretch of motorway in Southern Italy where Cataldi’s great-grandparents were born, A3 is the chef’s shot at reliving his childhood in the late ’60s.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Fitzsimons said the cat found dead on the motorway looked very similar to Frankie and Highway England workers even confirmed the markings.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024