as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a cow wandered into the roadway
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Recent Examples of roadway
Louisiana transportation agency workers worked through the night to prepare bridges and roadways.
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Gerald Herbert and David J. Phillip, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Initial reports indicated that the woman was struck in the roadway by a sport utility vehicle that may have been a light color.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Police found the motorcycle driver, 25-year-old Anthony Ayala, dead in the roadway.
—Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 19 Jan. 2025
Bicyclists must still consider their role in a safe roadway environment for other road users, and yield to pedestrians when using an L.P.I., but check with your municipal laws — and not your ethics columnist — regarding the rules of the road.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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Gerald Herbert and David J. Phillip, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Initial reports indicated that the woman was struck in the roadway by a sport utility vehicle that may have been a light color.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Police found the motorcycle driver, 25-year-old Anthony Ayala, dead in the roadway.
—Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 19 Jan. 2025
Bicyclists must still consider their role in a safe roadway environment for other road users, and yield to pedestrians when using an L.P.I., but check with your municipal laws — and not your ethics columnist — regarding the rules of the road.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadway
Noun
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Limited driving range tends to be an issue when driving longer distances on the highway, creating an additional incentive to conserve fuel.—
Peter Douglas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Production has ceased on Season 2 of the Big Talk Studios series about an 18th-century highway robber, putting a cast and crew of hundreds out of work with nothing to show for their efforts.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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Aides expect Trump will return occasionally to Mar-a-Lago during the next four years, but for now, the show is moving 1,000 miles up the road.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2025
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The agency then returned on Thursday, Jan. 16 and discovered the home had split and slid onto the road.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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The school’s proximity to two major thoroughfares, 47th Street and Pulaski Road, makes walking and biking too dangerous for most other parents in the community, Galvez Searle said.—
Sarah Macaraeg,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 405, the major thoroughfare connecting L.A. with the San Fernando Valley, remains open.—
Matteo Moschella,
NBC News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Upon arrival, officers found an unresponsive male with apparent gunshot wounds lying in the street next to a vehicle parked in front of the address, according to the social media post.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Robinson’s friend, Danny Shigemori, who has lived on the street for 55 years and ran a landscaping business, lost his place too.—
Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Range within the city is only around 120 miles (193 km) while cruising around on the freeway will decrease that number further to 71 miles (114 km).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Jan. 2025
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At 47 and a native Angeleno, I had never been picked up on the freeway before.—
Stacy Fernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Vasquez forgets that Chicago isn’t New York, and neither is our traffic, which is most problematic on the expressways and main arteries, not in a South Loop business district, which was almost devoid of traffic, human or vehicular, during the first part of rush hour on Monday morning.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2025
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This three-phase project began in 2023 and should improve the expressway for the 275,000 drivers who use it daily.—
Justin Kaufmann,
Axios,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Two Turkey fans stood in the middle of a three-lane carriageway.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 July 2024
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The project, first launched in 2019, broke ground in February 2023 to connect the A417 highway bypass to the Cowley roundabout, a section of road that is currently a single-lane carriageway that slows traffic, transportation officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2024
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Families being told to abandon their cars on evacuation routes to flee on foot and convalescent home residents being pushed down the street in wheelchairs as hot embers fly around them are scenes usually witnessed only in the movies.—
Caitlin Clarkson Pereira,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2025
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City planner Nathan Koster told the council that more property owners along the route were open to recurring or regular closures of the intersection.—
Kyle Stokes,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Roadway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadway. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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