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

Crashes, however, are far more likely on surface streets than on the highway: One study from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation showed that crashes were five times as common on local roads as on turnpikes.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

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