How to Use motorway in a Sentence

motorway

noun
  • One branch slips under a motorway and out into fields of maize.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
  • All of this makes the people who work at rest stops and motorway hotels useless.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Adam works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a small and lonely life.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
  • What if the train is cancelled, the motorway is solid with traffic?
    — John Hudson, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Today, it’s been replaced by a wide motorway with cars whizzing between north and south.
    — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 7 Feb. 2020
  • For tourists, motorways and chain-run service stations have long since taken over that role.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • In other words, a half-hour break every two hours at motorway speeds will make long journeys viable.
    — James Morris, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The single-lane one-way street runs for a fair stretch alongside the motorway noise barrier.
    — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Ayub plays Adam, who works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a lonely life.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The motorway, under repair, is scheduled to reopen in coming days for the first time in eight years.
    — Zeina Karam, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • And then, in the middle of that, there’s this video of him trying to give away a luxury croissant on the motorway.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • The interview started with a second apology from the man who was late due to a crash on the motorway.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The traffic on the M1 motorway had come to a total standstill.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • There’s some major funding going into the motorway that runs along the outskirts.
    — Alexandra Genova, Time, 22 May 2017
  • And as is befitting of such a rock god, a new sound system has been installed so Nicko can let his hair down on the motorway.
    — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Part of me was susceptible to what was outside the pavement and beyond the motorway.
    — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Three people died and dozens were injured when the Amtrak train came off a bridge onto a motorway below.
    — Erik Larson and Pamela MacLean, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The motorway is now the centre of day-to-day human life, following the world’s regression back to coal and oil.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • At a motorway exit near Rome, farmer Paolo Pepponi was part of a crowd that blocked the road.
    — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The pedestrian bridges across the motorway were completely full with onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of the cortège.
    — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Freight trucks line up on the M20 motorway near Dover port in December.
    — NBC News, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Leeds United’s home, nestled by the side of the M621 motorway around the edges of the city, looks tired in places.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • This video captures the remarkable escape of a driver who hit a truck and spun 180 degrees on a motorway.
    — Fox News, 11 July 2018
  • Users who called up the satellite view could see the famous spaceship by looking due east of the studio complex, just across the M3 motorway.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • On Friday, the protesters in Belgrade blocked a key bridge and motorway in the capital to press their demands.
    — Jovana Gec, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • Drivers on Ireland’s busiest motorway still face delays even after a wave of fuel protest blockades deescalated over the weekend.
    — Olivia Fletcher, Bloomberg, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Police tell us that we’ll be escorted under the M621 motorway towards the away turnstiles.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In the west of Belgium, near the French border, the A19 motorway ends in a four-lane, unfinished overpass.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • Questions remain on how infrastructure cost, power grid integration, and billing models will scale for longer stretches of motorway.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In May, a minibus rammed into a bus parked along a motorway in northwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring five others.
    — ABC News, 3 July 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'motorway.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: