HIGHWAY in a Sentence

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42 example sentences for HIGHWAY, such as:

1. The car skidded as she turned onto the highway.
2. The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.
3. They planned to build a highway to link the two towns.
4. As time went on, the surface of the highway roughened.
5. The new highway will reduce the time to drive to the beach.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIGHWAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
highway
 n.  a major road for motor transport
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  The gallows,' continued Fagin, 'the gallows, my dear, is an ugly finger-post, which points out a very short and sharp turning that has stopped many a bold fellow's career on the broad highway.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
3  In the matter of holidays, her mood was that of horses who, when turned out to grass, enjoy looking upon their kind at work on the highway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
4  Softer expressions followed this, and then again recurred the tender sadness which had sat upon him during his drive along the highway that afternoon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
5  Venn made a farewell obeisance, and walked back to his former position, where the byroad from Mistover joined the highway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
6  The road is an important highway, and there are usually people there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
7  The lawn is thirty yards across, and is only divided from the highway by a low wall with an iron rail above it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
8  The least I could have done was go out and commit highway robbery or murder to get the tax money for you when you had taken us in as beggars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  She had walked northward toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  It was charged that the white man paid the colored boy to make the assault, which he did on the public highway in broad day time, and was lynched.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  Their advance was rapid; and made with as much confidence as a traveler would proceed along a wide highway.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
14  His highway robberies laid waste the country-side.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
15  On leaving the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway on the person of a little Savoyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.
2  They planned to build a highway to link the two towns.
3  Some students today blocked a highway that cuts through the center of the city.
4  The new highway will reduce the time to drive to the beach.
5  We were part of an entire regiment that had nothing else to do but to keep that highway open.
6  The Trans-Canada highway is a federal responsibility.
7  The car skidded as she turned onto the highway.
8  During the drive home, we stop the car on the side of the highway, climb out and stare upward.
9  As time went on, the surface of the highway roughened.
10  She had to avert her eyes from the dead cat on the highway.
11  The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.
12  A new federal highway program would create jobs and give added impetus to our economic recovery.
13  The mob ran out of control along a 5 kilometer section of the main highway to Delhi, smashing fences, looting food and beating up shopkeepers.
14  Stalled cars along the highway are a hindrance to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay.
15  A giant redwood had fallen across the highway, blocking all four lanes: the road was impassable.