How to Use beltway in a Sentence

beltway

noun
  • Her influence extends beyond the Beltway.
  • Troopers tell us the outer loop of the beltway is completely shut down.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Felise added in the crash two victims were thrown from the inner loop to the outer loop of the beltway.
    — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
  • There is not a single person outside the beltway who is engaged in this nonsense.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The jobs that were created that are lasting are the jobs that were created in that beltway swamp.
    — Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
  • My guess is that many people inside the DC beltway have read this report.
    — Bob Haber, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • True leadership is earned inside the beltway as well as inside the boardroom.
    — David Wade, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Hersh had deep sources at the epicenter of the Washington beltway.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This annual affair rocks and bops inside the 495 beltway this year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
  • In Roxbury, Boston had planned to build an inner beltway highway.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Widening the beltway in Prince George’s County would come later.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
  • Baltimore is the superior squad in this battle of the beltway.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Planners also envisioned a multi-use area at the end of the beltway enclosed in glass and looking out at the water.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But in the beltway, political Twitter is an omnipresent fact of your physical life.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 June 2018
  • My heart goes out to the victims and the families affected by the tragic crash on the 695 beltway this afternoon.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Just north of the beltway, things are little more, well, tight, with the Ravens sitting at 19th with just under $14 million in room.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The state Department of Transportation is building that segment of beltway.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the swing precincts are in suburbs north and southeast of Phoenix, in an arc roughly described by a beltway route known as Loop 101.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Others, especially proposals for new roads, such as the beltway and even a short stub of toll road at Sanford’s airport, seem to progress in inches.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There are no major improvements in transit, but toll lanes are built on outer beltways, and another bridge is built to the Eastern Shore.
    — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Peak officials cited the location near the beltway and not far from downtown Baltimore as adding to the complex’s appeal.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Skies are partly cloudy overnight and temperatures remain warm, near 80 downtown and in the mid-to-upper 70s outside of the beltway.
    — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 9 July 2017
  • The proposal would create four toll lanes — two in each direction — on both Interstate 270 and the western part of the beltway.
    — Brian Witte, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Officials are scrambling to clean up and rebuild after the accident, which has shuttered the city’s busy port and a portion of the Baltimore beltway.
    — Ben Finley, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Officials are scrambling to clean up and rebuild after the accident, which has shuttered the city's busy port and a portion of the Baltimore beltway.
    — Ben Finley and Brian Witte, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But beyond the beltway, there is also deep frustration and anger in the streets of America as young men and women of color keep getting injured and killed by police.
    — Maeve Reston, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • To do it again at Morrow, just South of the I-285 beltway, Weaks needed a game-changer who would buy in quickly.
    — oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2020
  • It was once envisioned as part of a beltway loop around Hartford, linking Farmington on the western end and Rocky Hill on the east.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Hawkins maintained the extension east wasn’t for Tavistock and was long-planned in the county as a beltway to help connect new growth to the airport and Medical City.
    — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The difference between the two schools is Moeller has been on this stage seven times, whereas Deer Park has rarely left the Interstate 275 beltway.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018

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