How to Use multilane in a Sentence

multilane

adjective
Definition of multilanenext
  • Find middle ground: On a multilane road, stick to the middle.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Herzberg was crossing the multilane road with her bicycle when the Uber SUV struck her at 38 miles per hour.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2020
  • For more than a quarter-mile, both sides of the multilane street were AfD territory.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • At least 17 bodies in civilian clothes were discovered along a half-mile section of Nikopolsky Avenue, a multilane highway that runs across the northeast part of the city, the video shows.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Wedged between apartment buildings and a multilane thoroughfare, the camp is the size of a city block — a patchwork of squat mud-brick houses with narrow, muddy lanes and open sewers.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • If crosswalks only come every quarter or half-mile, Hamann said, many people will opt to jaywalk through multilane roads.
    — Maia Pandey, NBC News, 29 June 2023
  • With streetlights few and far between, a busy multilane road leading into the city turns into a white-knuckle speedway at nightfall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Imagine a Druid Hill Park bounded not by a multilane expressway, but by roundabouts, bike lanes shielded by green buffers and new pedestrian crossings.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Supporters said the location, at the intersection of two multilane highways, was an appropriate place for a high-rise.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
  • State engineers, funded by conservation nonprofits, will soon link the territories by building wildlife bridges across two L.A.-area multilane highways.
    — Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Its multilane approaches are empty, its vast nearby shopping emporiums deserted.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023

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