How to Use raceway in a Sentence

raceway

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  • The dad of one of our friends used to race his Pontiac at this raceway.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Busch got back to second on the last lap, but ran out of raceway to chase down Dillon.
    — Damian Dottore, Orange County Register, 28 May 2017
  • The wires are placed into the raceway channel, and then a cover snaps on to conceal the wires.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The city sat on 650 acres of swampland where the Expo Center, the raceway and golf course are today.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
  • Once that’s done, plan out your raceway or cable sleeve routes.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Meet at the Dog Hill entrance ready to remove trash and debris from the road, trails, picnic area and old mill raceway.
    — Courant Community, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The lone facility on the backstretch of the Lebanon, Ohio, raceway has stalls for more than 120 horses.
    — cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The raceway says the driver was a 75-year old Napa resident.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The raceway is equipped to handle up to 2,000 campers during its major event weekends.
    — Kevin Spain, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Farley won his class and placed second overall in Group 6 on the 2.2-mile historic raceway.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2021
  • What can be done to calm traffic on a roadway that most of the time feels like an unmonitored raceway?
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Every one of the four drivers has experience at the Avondale track, but Smith, 21, has yet to race a truck at the mile-long raceway.
    — Jose M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • This trip, The Captain wanted the Indy native to have an early chance to marvel at the facelift the Penske era had brought to the world's most iconic raceway.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2020
  • In 2004 the zoo built the first of three different 'raceways,' or artificial streams.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • The nearly 2-mile course sits on 268 acres owned by Portland, according to the raceway's website.
    — Tony Hernandez | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 15 May 2017
  • Group up your cables with velcro or plastic ties to keep them nice and neat before hiding them away in a raceway or sleeve.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Centria’s logo is on Williams’ car, and on the polo shirt worn by his mother, Irena Politano, who stood in the shade near the team's trailer at the raceway.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The raceway had scheduled four Mixed Martial Arts bouts for after the Firecracker 250.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2017
  • Harvey should feel comfortable at the season finale Sonoma, as two of his Lights win came at the raceway.
    — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Much of the raceway’s acreage, about half of it in Carlsbad and the rest in Vista, was sold off to individual developers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • Then each cord could disappear into the raceway without dangling down the wall.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • On the sliding track — the raceway of luge, skeleton and bobsled — a luge athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was killed on the eve of the 2010 Vancouver Games.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • At the Ford tent in the Pit area at Lucas Oil raceway, several engineers played with the doors and circled the car with the front and back trunks open to showcase the power inside.
    — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2020
  • By now this had become a familiar sight for Miles, who often welcomed Luck to the raceway during the Indy 500.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Sports venues and raceway events may open with 50% capacity.
    — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2020
  • Today, visitors to the raceway can see dragsters, monster trucks, off-road races and drag boats compete.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 9 May 2017
  • The raceway hosts Sonoma Drags and Drifts on Wednesday nights, where drivers can race their vehicles and perform road tricks away from city streets, the report said.
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Watkins said landing the 2021 concert is a great opportunity for the raceway.
    — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2021
  • Since the pandemic, bike lanes effectively go through the middle of restaurants, which have sidewalk seating on one side of the raceway and covered shed seating on the other side.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Huffman wanted to create a permanent memorial for the raceway and, with $4,000 in seed money from the raceway’s original builder HG Fenton, his monument campaign got under way.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021

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