Thesaurus results for INTERSTATE

interstate

noun

Definition of interstate

as in highway

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Recent Examples of interstate Night owls and early birds can expect another round of lane closures on Interstate 70 near Floyd Hill this week as crews work on building a bridge over the interstate, Colorado Department of Transportation officials said. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2026 Mangione entered a guilty plea to one count of interstate stalking resulting in death and one count of stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death, according to CNN and The New York Times. — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 In 2016, McClain was also honored for his role in helping to save the life of a 35-year-old woman during a medical event on an Idaho interstate, KMVT reported at the time. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2026 The westbound lanes were closed for about 90 minutes before the interstate was partially reopened. — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for interstate

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Noun

While crews were at the scene, a separate crash occurred on the eastbound side of the highway when a driver slowed down to look at the wreck, according to Peck.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
Minneapolis has long been a civic-minded metropolis, where even the choice of vegetation on highway medians can become the subject of extended public debate, in a state with a history of protest going back to the nineteenth century.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
In the city today, the Salt River is mostly reduced to a wide, dusty trough that passes unceremoniously under freeway bridges.

— Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of freeway

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

Earlier in August, five teenagers were killed in a two-vehicle collision in Ireland after driving a car the wrong way down a motorway.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
At the periphery, the big cities with their golden nightlights bound together by long threads of motorway.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of motorway

Noun

The new Stars arena will be located off the Dallas autobahn, more commonly called the Dallas North Tollway, which over the last decade has become one of the busiest main roads in DFW.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
Southbound on the autobahn, just shy of the halfway point to Munich, a 45‑minute detour east leads to Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei, brewing since 1050.

— David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

Definition of autobahn

Noun

Authorities on Wednesday pre-emptively announced that roads leading to the port would be closed to non-emergency vehicles for seven days, according to state media.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Under the new collective bargaining agreement, each NHL team must sign a permanent emergency backup who will be at every home game and travel with the team to all road games (like a bullpen catcher in Major League Baseball).

— Michael Russo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

The parkway passes through Alleghany County near the Virginia state line.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
Crews will return to Lisle in the spring and fall to determine which parkway trees need to be replaced, and will do so for residents who lost trees in the storms, Elias said.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of parkway

Noun

The driver is also alleged to have made a U-turn from a through lane after exiting the expressway, according to the affidavit.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Directed by Takahiro Hasui, the latest installment in the franchise tracks Conan Edogawa investigating high-speed vehicular sabotage on an expressway network.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of expressway

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