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Recent Examples of freeway Despite officers using less-lethal munitions in an attempt to break up the demonstrations, protesters marched onto the 101 Freeway, halting traffic on a portion of the freeway running through downtown. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 June 2025 On Sunday, and not too far from where the BET Awards are being celebrated, demonstrators shut down the 101 freeway to express their discontent over Trump’s inhumane policies. Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 9 June 2025 Emergency crews closed multiple lanes of the freeway just after 12:45 p.m. while authorities responded to the scene, where a motorcyclist collided with another vehicle, the CHP reported. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 The planning commission on June 11 will hear about Magnolia Fountain Valley, a 657-housing complex in two mid-rise buildings sandwiched between Magnolia Street, Warner Avenue, flanking the 405 freeway. Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for freeway
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Noun
  • Arriving in Huntsville, visitors are greeted by a towering Saturn V rocket that looms beside the highway like a monolith of American achievement.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • The alerts are disseminated rapidly through multiple platforms, such as radio, television, highway message boards, cellphones and internet services, ensuring the widest possible reach.
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • These disruptions often result in road closures, traffic spikes and delays across key transit routes, severely affecting delivery schedules.
    Clemente Theotokis, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, their last seven road games, the Panthers have scored, counting backwards, five; three; five; five; five; six; and six.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • Central Florida’s anger over a planned toll road through Split Oak Forest figured into a flood of objections to the reappointment of a South Florida businessman to the state wildlife commission, which gave its blessing last year to build an expressway through the treasured preserve.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In one video, officers were seen throwing smoke bombs and flash bangs onto the street to get people to disperse, so the authorities could drive away in vans, SUVs and military-style vehicles.
    Greg Wehner , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
  • Like the old streets in so many cities, which were meant to bring out the history, turned out to be repetitions everywhere.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • But that Miami location near the busy LeJeune Road thoroughfare that leads from Miami International Airport five miles away also once made this Sears a popular destination with tourists.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
  • Lamia is laser-focused on fulfilling her cake-baking duty, but Bibi has made this trip with another purpose, one that divides the two and sets Lamia on a quest through the city’s thoroughfares and backstreets and bustling souk, with its hawkers and their wares.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • But there’s another route this could go down, a silent divorce.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 June 2025
  • DeSantis says protesters on roadways can be run over by drivers.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • The roadway will become a boulevard similar to national park roads, Botich said.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • With one entrance at La Rambla, a wide boulevard running through the heart of the city center, this is a popular place for lunch or a light snack at one of its many bars.
    Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025

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“Freeway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freeway. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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