How to Use highway in a Sentence

highway

noun
  • I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.
  • The big ones are like their highways.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Do not pull over on the highway to view them.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The hum of the highway reached us across an arable field.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The spill closed part of the highway as crews cleared the cans and cheese.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There were cracks in the road and a smashed car on the side of the highway.
    — Eyad Kourdi With Ivana Kottasova, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Lil girl ran out onto the highway right in front of me.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The road the couple had turned off was a state highway.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Lanes of the highway were shut down for about an hour while the scene was cleaned up.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • But the highway is open — so enjoy it now.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • The teen suspects fled on foot and ran off the side of the highway.
    — Megan Sims, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The headlights don't have much reach on a dark desert highway.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
  • Over the river, through the woods, or just down the highway.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 18 June 2026
  • The highway was blocked for roughly four hours.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But there was once a time when these highways were new and free-flowing.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
  • All lanes of that part of the highway were closed but have since been reopened.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 13 July 2025
  • Keep in mind that the highway, or sections of it, can close due to snow.
    — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Streaks of dark blood ran from deep in the brush to the shoulder of the highway.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • With your job in the rearview mirror, and the open highway ahead, how about a road trip?
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
  • One side of the highway is all cancer; the other side all crazy.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The land is visible both from the highway and the lakeshore road.
    — Alissa Gary, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • Crossing a major highway in the dark, and this kind of thing?
    — Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The bills would have made the left lane of highways solely a passing lane.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The bills would have made the left lane of highways solely a passing lane.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The novel starts out on a highway, in a car that’s driving too fast.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • One showed huge plumes of dark smoke visible from a highway.
    — Omer Bekin, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The runway begins a stone’s throw from the edge of the highway.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • The runway begins a stone’s throw from the edge of the highway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
  • The light pole then struck a Jeep on the highway, state police said.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 4 May 2026
  • At noon, the road opened up, people waved and drove down an empty highway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

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