How to Use the Beltway in a Sentence

the Beltway

noun
  • There is still a chance the rain remains mainly east of the Beltway.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 2023-09-21
  • There is a long running debate in the Beltway about how elections are won.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2024-06-22
  • That speaks volumes to me as someone who has lived most of her life outside the Beltway.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 2023-10-16
  • But these are just MacGuffins: sops to the Beltway superfans.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 2024-10-11
  • The show is popular among the Beltway set and in the Biden White House.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2024-07-15
  • What's next: Beyond the Beltway's last show is 6pm Sunday.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 2025-01-17
  • Maybe the Beltway bedlam is more draining because of the decision to push the story to five hour-long episodes?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-04-28
  • The echo of all those other cities’ plights is reason to offer some sympathy, or at least recognition, as the Beltway now absorbs its blows.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 2025-03-13
  • Why aliens land daily on I-795 and the Beltway and seem bent on destruction or abduction?
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 2024-06-23
  • Mass layoffs in the Beltway could force some residents to put their homes up for sale at depressed values, denting the real estate market.
    — Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2025-02-25
  • But the Beltway establishment, in a frenzy, wanted to keep America at home.
    — Debra J. Saunders, Orange County Register, 2025-03-11
  • Many in the Beltway argue that just because IS’ territorial caliphate is no longer around, that doesn’t mean the threat is over.
    — Daniel Depetris, TIME, 2024-09-28
  • Patel, in his book, took that a step forward and argued that FBI leadership should move outside the Beltway.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2025-01-30
  • The crew enthusiastically continued over the hills to the east, and on to the Beltway, and then followed that highway just above the treetops.
    — Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 2025-02-01
  • But overspending and inefficiency are not contained inside the Beltway.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 2025-01-16
  • Democrats are sounding alarms about the practical effects of the GOP plan in hopes that those warnings resonate with voters of all stripes outside the Beltway.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 2025-02-12
  • Even inside the Beltway, the depth of support for a muscular U.S. foreign policy was questionable.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 2023-03-17
  • The Hill, a widely read news source inside the Beltway, wrote a story about the letter that included background that may have enlightened the uninitiated.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2024-02-02
  • Indoors, these firms bring bold color palettes, masterful mixes of vintage and modern pieces, and one-of-a-kind custom furnishings to homes inside the Beltway and beyond.
    — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 2025-02-05
  • Hiring at veterans’ hospitals and at field offices to support infrastructure projects has meant that all of the federal staffing growth has happened outside the Beltway.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 2025-01-19
  • The non-traditional journalist might have been from outside the Beltway, but Drudge was a journalist who had held Clinton accountable.
    — Megan Schrader, The Denver Post, 2025-02-27
  • Predictably, the Beltway reacted with outrage and anonymous sabotage of her looming confirmation.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 2025-01-10
  • Over the weekend, the designer used her Instagram to clue in fans to her plans to visit the Beltway, by posting Warren’s invitation to speak at the hearing.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 2024-07-30
  • But Biden allies argue criticism about Harris lives mainly in the Beltway and that she's been an effective messenger for the administration, even if it isn't recognized.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 2023-04-29

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