How to Use superhighway in a Sentence

superhighway

noun
  • The spinal cord is like a superhighway for the body’s nervous system.
    — Gail Dutton, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Holes around pipes or wiring are often overlooked, but can act as a mouse superhighway system through your home.
    — Mary Beth Griggs, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The route from Chad to the Amazon isn’t the only dust superhighway.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • In France and countries to the south, these superhighways usually come with tolls.
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
  • But after three storms in a little over a year, the area is beginning to feel like a hurricane superhighway.
    — Stephen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Every empty space is a building site; the plan is to transform the main coastal route from single-lane mayhem to a sleek superhighway.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The nerve is like a superhighway, connecting the brain to other organs such as the heart, lungs, and digestive system.
    — Paul McClure 22, New Atlas, 22 May 2025
  • Bikes were such a popular mode of urban transportation that cities scrambled to build cycling superhighways for them.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 13 July 2018
  • The reprieve from the heat can be traced to the shape of the jet stream, which is the high-altitude wind current that divides hot and cold air and is the superhighway for storms.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • The baby turtles often exited the superhighway to hang out in floating mats of seaweed called at the ocean's surface.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2014
  • But after Idalia and two other storms in a little over a year, the area is beginning to feel like a hurricane superhighway.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Don't let your investment in a state-of-the-art superhighway be compromised by an inability to see the traffic.
    — Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But Pike — like many others here — knows that the thousands of dogs roaming freely between the desert landscape and people's homes serve as a superhighway for ticks.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The immune system fights on the front lines, but the body’s superhighway of information reaches every cell when disease and distress is present.
    — Deepak Chopra, Md, Facp and Rudolph E. Tanzi, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • First is an eight-lane superhighway, designed exclusively for massive traffic.
    — Judy Stecker, STAT, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Whether from land or sea, visitors can witness what is essentially a whale-migration superhighway.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The obvious answer, then, is to make the road network as efficient as the information superhighway.
    — Josh McHugh, WIRED, 21 July 2008
  • The streams became channelized rivers — superhighways for flowing water.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Darwin's Arch, a majestic piece of land that rises up suddenly in the middle of nowhere, is on a superhighway for hammerheads.
    — José Andrés, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Many great seafaring societies had turned the sea into a trading and cultural superhighway by the time of Hokusai’s work.
    — Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Or rivers like the Skykomish that flow into the Puget Sound, which used to be salmon superhighways but are now closed to sportfishing some years due to abysmal returns.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
  • That is a critical step for Korea’s plan to build an energy superhighway to carry renewables across the nation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Before Russia’s invasion, the Dnieper was a grain superhighway.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Abnormally cold waters have led to an abundance of krill and anchovies, which in turn has led to a superhighway of humpback whales off the California coast.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Even though the mouse could not taste that the water was sweet, cells in the gut sensed the sugar and sent signals along the vagus nerve — a superhighway connecting body to brain — that taught the animal to want more.
    — Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • Along with the immune system, there’s the vagus nerve that functions like a superhighway, running from the brain to the gut and directly interfacing with the microbiome.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 25 June 2024
  • The bridge was a key link in a nearly decadelong project to complete a superhighway connecting the Sinaloa coast to the McAllen region in Texas.
    — ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The animals use the Eagle River Valley as a kind of bruin superhighway, moving up and down the river all summer long.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
  • The emergence of the automobile, the superhighway and the road trip were remarkable developments in the US.
    — Channon Hodge, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • From above, that line of buses and RVs and jeeps looked just like the photo that circulated the internet this year, a fifteen-lane superhighway snaking through a beige moonscape.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023

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