How to Use on-ramp in a Sentence

on-ramp

noun
  • Aguilar was found stabbed to death under a Chelsea on-ramp.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 7 May 2026
  • But if my mom wouldn't have given me that on-ramp Right.
    — Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The on-ramp was expected to be closed for about 60 days.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The on-ramp will be closed for an extended period of time.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • What is the detour when the Hickman Road on-ramp is closed?
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Drivers will have to detour around the closure by using the next on-ramp.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Caltrans did not have an approximate time for when the lanes and on-ramp would be open again.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That could help speed up the on-ramp to meaningful streaming profits.
    — Sarah Whitten,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
  • None of this negates the democratic appeal of putting every child on the same on-ramp to wealth.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • While no freeways will be closed, some on-ramps and off-ramps will be temporarily blocked.
    — Holly Andres, Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Prior to the chase, she’d been pulled over and boxed in by police on the Turnpike on-ramp.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Internships, a key on-ramp, are less reliable too.
    — Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The vehicle was towed from the freeway on-ramp that the suspect had abandoned it on.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 May 2024
  • The Northwest Couch and Glisan streets northbound on-ramps will be closed.
    — oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The vacation, in effect, becomes the on-ramp to a new long-term practice.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
  • All on-ramps and exits of the 22 freeway will also remain open.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 25 May 2026
  • Think of the end of January as an on-ramp for the year — a way to get up to speed at a pace that feels good for you.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The intention would be to limit the quick east-west and on-ramp getaway arteries.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The sinkhole is on the Highway 99 on-ramp from 4th Street.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Doug Floyd lay in wait on a wedge of dirt and dry grass between Texas 130 and an on-ramp.
    — Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In many ways, ball machines are the on-ramp to the DUPR journey.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Eventually, they were directed to reverse and get off through an on-ramp.
    — Christina Fan, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Childhood has never been easy, but these days the on-ramp to adulthood seems somehow shorter and more perilous.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Eastbound Loop 101 on-ramp at Cave Creek Road closed.
    — Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Pritzker says the money will help create an impactful on-ramp for Chicagoans.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Create a gentle on-ramp for sleep by doing some quiet activities that get you in the mood for bed.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The driver then got back on the highway using the on-ramp at the same exit where another trooper had placed stop sticks.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The Prius struck the victim, a 20-year-old Texas man, on the on-ramp, Gerber said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • People squeezed through holes in fences that were blocking the freeway on-ramp near Commercial Street.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • The Lincoln Avenue on-ramps to southbound I-25 to be closed.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025

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