turnpike
noun
a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
turnpikes
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pluralof turnpike.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Internal improvements, like roads and turnpikes, received investment to control the vast territory beyond the coasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
Americans, Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked shortly after the Civil War, were “fanatics in freedom; they hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks, hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Like Gump, a good-hearted simpleton, who travels through milestones in US history - the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal - Chaddha's life takes him through the cultural and political turnpikes of 20th-Century India.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022
That’s reasonable in the Eastern half of the country, the land of turnpikes and truck stops.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2020
“All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.”
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
