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Meanings of expressway in English
A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic.
Synonyms
Examples for "pike"
Examples for "pike"
1
The 'pike never lost its individuality among the streets of the capital.
2
And the savage pike they would sometimes fight in his own element.
3
The sluicers with their long pike-poles thrust the logs into the chute.
4
Looking at it, you'd never know what was coming down the pike.
5
An old pike immediately brings to mind the cataclysmic violence of 1798.
1
Madam, -The development of the new motorway system is hugely welcome.
2
Motorists are being asked to avoid the motorway both today and tomorrow.
3
When the new motorway is open in 2005, the journey will improve.
4
These include Auckland's central motorway junctions and the state highways in Hamilton.
5
The tanker caught fire minutes later at the side of the motorway.
1
That way you're less likely to miss that turn off the freeway.
2
I think the freeway goes through that, or at least near it.
3
He must be goggled in from a public terminal alongside some freeway.
4
We've never seen a vehicle look this bad on the freeway before.
5
Take the car on the freeway to make sure it tracks straight.
1
There was a long queue of traffic but the superhighway was clear.
2
Want to take it out for a spin on the information superhighway?
3
We are alone, which is unusual for this superhighway of backcountry routes.
4
What good is a superhighway if all you've got is a tricycle?
5
They can talk about something just around the corner called an information superhighway.
1
Then a five-day resupply and briefing period and back onto another thruway.
2
Kelly sighed and stared out into the light streaked night of the thruway.
3
The thruway had its own steady rhythm, its soft white glow.
4
Ten bands of color-eachfive separated by a narrow clear strip, detailed the thruway.
5
This vehicle may attempt to regain access to NAT-26-West or it may take another thruway.
1
The Highway, as I recalled it, was a comparatively sedate throughway.
2
Synge Street is a throughway of three parts.
3
Barrelling along a throughway located almost under the buildings themselves, I saw it, but far too late.
4
All along FDR Drive, which the park overlooked, people stood between parked cars on the never-idle throughway.
5
This is a pedestrian throughway, you know!
1
You wouldn't think of walking down the middle of a state highway.
2
The state highway patrol could haul them in on reckless driving charges.
3
The highway bill authorizes long-term federal funding for state highway projects.
4
It's just a regular neighbourhood with a public beach and a state highway.
5
They shot past the last traffic light and hummed down a state highway.
Usage of expressway in English
1
For expressway business, the Company operates expressway networks and provides related services.
2
Bianca Begovich says the Government is rushing needlessly ahead with the expressway.
3
Despite concerns, Mr Hunt said the expressway was safe to drive on.
4
The Company is also engaged in the operations of expressway related businesses.
5
He also highlighted the option of developing surplus land from the expressway.
6
He was later filmed being arrested on the side of the expressway.
7
Below the expressway I could see acres and acres of sleeping houses.
8
He was in a head-on collision with a Buick on the expressway.
9
They left the parking garage and drove toward Arlington on the expressway.
10
I did not want to be on a bridge; I wanted an expressway.
11
This doesn't mean you'll see bike lanes on that new expressway through town.
12
Authorities say Chicago-area expressway shootings have been steadily on the rise.
13
We left the expressway and came out on a wide road.
14
The Wildlife Trusts once mounted a legal challenge to the expressway.
15
City workers dismantled an expressway and turned its path into a popular park.
16
They'd both died of heart attacks on the expressway, shortly before the accident.
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Translations for expressway
Catalan
Spanish
Expressway through the time
Expressway across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Less common