Thesaurus results for INTERSTATE

interstate

noun

Definition of interstate

as in highway

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Recent Examples of interstate The 37-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, later pulled over on the side of the interstate, got out of his car and pulled out a gun, police said. — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 The pedestrian was heading north in the middle of the right lane when a FedEx truck headed south on the interstate struck him. — Celia Frazier, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2026 Council members Malcolm Graham and Joi Mayo, whose west Charlotte districts fall in the interstate’s footprint, flipped their votes in favor. — Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026 The interstate will be closed from the Southwest Mixmaster to Grand Prairie Parkway for four nights. — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for interstate

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Noun

The fences are required so that access is limited along the highway.

— Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
If a semi can travel hundreds of highway miles without a person in the cab, what happens to the person who used to sit there?

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

The difference between one driver successfully passing another on the freeway is sometimes just a matter of a few inches.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
Director Christopher Nolan uses the premise to stage spectacular sequences where cars reverse down freeways at high speed, cause and effect goes topsy-turvy, and fights are just, well, weird.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of freeway

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

And, of course, there won’t be many people who want to defend someone in that position — or, indeed, listen to any hard-luck stories — now the details have been outlined in court about his motorway rampage.

— Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Germany and Italy expanded motorway networks—the Autobahn and the autostrada—laying the foundations for the automobile’s privileged position in this modernity.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of motorway

Noun

The new Stars arena will be located off the Dallas autobahn, more commonly called the Dallas North Tollway, which over the last decade has become one of the busiest main roads in DFW.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
Southbound on the autobahn, just shy of the halfway point to Munich, a 45‑minute detour east leads to Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei, brewing since 1050.

— David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

Definition of autobahn

Noun

At the height of the incident, DeKalb fire crews blocked two right lanes of I-85 southbound and the entire access road next to it.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The Wildcats improved to 6-1 with a win at Oklahoma, which marks their third road win in the conference.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

Beyond the parkway and downtown Asheville, which is a cultural hotspot with one-of-a-kind mountain charm, other popular stops in the area include Biltmore Estate, the 250-room Vanderbilt mansion, which was largely spared hurricane damage.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
The parkway passes through Alleghany County near the Virginia state line.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of parkway

Noun

The center sits near the Dolphin and Palmetto expressways and Interstate 95, adjacent to the Waterford Blue Lagoon Business District.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
The crash happened before dawn near the viaduct that carries the expressway (I-90/94) over Division Street.

— Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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