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  • Well anyway, I just want you to know that I took an exit off the interstate on the way back.   (source)
  • I thought of Albuquerque and Los Angeles, and of the miles of lost interstate in between.   (source)
  • He opens his eyes to see they have stopped on the interstate.   (source)
  • So once a week I shoulder my trusty M16 and hike out of the forest to the interstate.   (source)
  • As he races onto the interstate, cars swerve around him, but he keeps on going.   (source)
  • Did you kill those three people on the interstate?   (source)
  • The headline reads, PILEUP ON INTERSTATE.   (source)
  • Down by the interstate there's a rest stop where truckers pull off the road for the night.   (source)
  • There are wrecks everywhere, some no worse than fender benders, some pileups that snake along the interstate for miles, and the morning sunlight sparkles on all the broken glass.   (source)
  • But when we broke off the interstate and started navigating the burned-out landscape of the Bronx, we could feel her energy shifting.   (source)
  • He was so freaked out at having tranq'd a cop with his own weapon, he just dropped it and ran—just as he dropped his backpack on the interstate so he could carry Lev.   (source)
  • Twelve miles on foot brought him to Topock, Arizona, a dusty way station along Interstate 40 where the freeway intersects the California border.   (source)
  • Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation.   (source)
  • On March 14, Franz left McCandless on the shoulder of Interstate 70 outside Grand Junction and returned to southern California.   (source)
  • As I drove down the interstate to reach the prison, I noticed the long rays of sunlight retreating even as the heat of the Alabama summer persisted.   (source)
  • A big tractor-semitrailer rig was idling out front; Rod Wolf, one of Westerberg's employees, needed to haul a load of sunflower seeds to Enderlin, North Dakota, and had agreed to drive McCandless to Interstate 94.   (source)
  • Mother, Audrey and Emily picked me up at the airport in Salt Lake City, and together we skidded onto the interstate.   (source)
  • The drugs became scarce, which prompted state correctional authorities to obtain them illegally, without complying with FDA rules that regulate the interstate sale and transfer of drugs.   (source)
    interstate = between state
  • I have no clue what's out there beyond these woods and the two-mile stretch of interstate I hike every week to forage for supplies.   (source)
    interstate = a road that runs through more than one state in the United States
  • When we tired of this, we'd turn on the CB and listen to the lonely banter of truckers stretched out across the interstate.   (source)
  • I argued to the judge that not taking Avery's mental health issues into consideration at trial was as cruel as saying to someone who has lost his legs, "You must climb these stairs with no assistance, and if you don't, you're just lazy" Or to say to someone who is blind, "You should get across this busy interstate highway unaided, or you're just cowardly."   (source)
  • As we sped down the interstate I watched the landscape splinter and barb, the rolling black summits of the Bear River Mountains giving way to the razor-edged Rockies.   (source)
  • Cutting them down with the same brutal efficiency as the Silencer on the interstate, the hunter in the woods who chased me under a car and then mysteriously disappeared.   (source)
  • As they pull onto the interstate, Lev rolls down the window to feel the wind on his face, and closes his eyes to prepare himself.   (source)
  • You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours.   (source)
  • The truck has been pulled over to the side of the interstate by two highway patrol cars and a Juveycop unit.   (source)
  • On the southbound roadway are policemen who have finally stopped traffic on their side of the interstate, and have made it to the median dividing the north and southbound lanes.   (source)
  • They stretched all the way down past the music library and onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • Sam guides the truck off the interstate and turns right onto Richland Avenue.†   (source)
  • Slowly, surely, stalking his way down Interstate 10.†   (source)
  • They got off the interstate again somewhere in Iowa to get gas and a map.†   (source)
  • We drove the long stretch of Interstate 60 to Riverside.†   (source)
  • I get to describe Interstate 10 through Texas.†   (source)
  • Most of the driving would be on the interstate highways, which makes driving monotonous.†   (source)
  • Along the interstate in the distance long lines of charred and rusting cars.†   (source)
  • They sped toward Interstate 10, but the closer they got, the heavier the traffic became.†   (source)
  • The road was a state highway but not a major interstate.†   (source)
  • This interstate freeway we are on must not have existed then.†   (source)
  • He paused a beat and said in a flat tone, 'They just closed part of the interstate.†   (source)
  • He makes one turn, then another, and in twenty-five minutes we pull onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • Most of the cars use the Interstate that runs parallel to this old road.†   (source)
  • We pull off the interstate and hit the drive-through.†   (source)
  • A microbe that ate the tar in asphalt had turned several interstate highways to sand.†   (source)
  • The trucks are headed north on Interstate 99 and their motors grind and groan, lonesome sounds.†   (source)
  • I laughed, relieved, and exited the interstate.†   (source)
  • As I drove down the interstate, she said, "There's something to be said for trying hard, you know?†   (source)
  • Lacey is turning onto the road that will take us back to the interstate.†   (source)
  • And then I turned on the car and started to make my way back toward the interstate.†   (source)
  • I turned onto the interstate entrance ramp and floored it.†   (source)
  • Radar guides us up a slow-sloping embankment and back onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • In May 1977, I lived in a Howard Johnson's motel off of Interstate 10 in Houston.†   (source)
  • Brown said they were just pulling off the interstate.†   (source)
  • Convinced that he was not being followed, he finally picked up Interstate 25 and drove south.†   (source)
  • In less than an hour, he was out of L.A. traffic and heading northeast on the interstate.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel like coming to school, so I hit the interstate and didn't look back."†   (source)
  • Lorenzo's voice crackled over the radio as they got onto Interstate 10 and headed west.†   (source)
  • We camped near Emory, Virginia, slightly north of Interstate 81.†   (source)
  • What about that time on the interstate, on the way to the World of Waffles?†   (source)
  • You couldn't even see the exit ramps off the interstate because the snow was so heavy.†   (source)
  • Combs saw the van swerve onto the Interstate and begin to tip onto its left side.†   (source)
  • The biggest ones were wider than Interstate 93.†   (source)
  • We were on the interstate when I decided I couldn't keep it from her any longer.†   (source)
  • He took an Interstate time-and-toll ticket and rolled south.†   (source)
  • There was a wreck on the interstate a few miles back.†   (source)
  • I got in the car and headed out toward the interstate.†   (source)
  • Sachs drove down Interstate 85, then turned onto 40.†   (source)
  • I'm named after an exit off Interstate 80."†   (source)
  • Take a left, and in three miles you'll be at the Interstate.†   (source)
  • There's a Wendy's two exits down the interstate. in Milan.†   (source)
  • The navigation system advised Saladin to leave Interstate 66 at Exit 18.†   (source)
  • The interstate was fine, as Wayne Tanner had expected.†   (source)
  • So Colin drove past the Hardee's and out onto the interstate headed north.†   (source)
  • Casanova turned onto Interstate 40 and headed south.†   (source)
  • He drove up 117 to 302 and followed that road to its intersection with Interstate 95 in Portland.†   (source)
  • He reached the interstate where the road split and went west, to Louisville.†   (source)
  • As I drove down Interstate 81 toward Newport, I ran through the possibilities.†   (source)
  • He could hear the drone of trucks already moving out on the interstate.†   (source)
  • It took us about twenty minutes down the interstate to get to wherever we were going.†   (source)
  • The interstate wove past uninteresting towns with forgettable names.†   (source)
  • This is a dangerous conversation to have when I'm driving on an interstate at sixty miles an hour.†   (source)
  • He put more gas in the car and went back to the interstate.†   (source)
  • They had breakfast, checked out and drove back up to the interstate.†   (source)
  • It was interstate now, and every possible lead was being chased down with a vengeance.†   (source)
  • They had decided this was an interstate crime spree, so it was theirs to solve.†   (source)
  • She looped back onto the interstate and drove through the night, all the way to Choteau.†   (source)
  • Wayne knew the interstate would be okay, they'd have had the snowplows and sanders out hours ago.†   (source)
  • He flew down the last miles of the interstate, whipped onto the exit that would take him to the Hollow.†   (source)
  • Y.T. could feel them pulling off the interstate, finding their way down twisty development lanes, courts, ways, and circles.†   (source)
  • ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, even over the hum of the air conditioner in the summer, you could hear the cars passing my apartment on Interstate 35.†   (source)
  • I drove to the extended care facility, picked up my dad's things, then left Wilmington, heading west along the interstate, moving on autopilot.†   (source)
  • One time, returning from a trip to Massachusetts, his jury-rigged device for towing a car behind the bus malfunctioned, in a rainstorm on an interstate.†   (source)
  • Pulling my gaze from the sunrise above New York, I looked down the overpass at Interstate 78, past a container yard, and toward New Jersey and Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • My mom drove her parents crazy with pleas to drive her the twenty minutes down Interstate 8 to the surf rolling in at the foot of Law Street in Pacific Beach.†   (source)
  • Dixie Highway was the original U.S. 1 that ran along Florida's eastern coast and served as the main route to Miami before the arrival of the interstate.†   (source)
  • Traffic roaring past to the tunnel, other boroughs, other cities, malls and parkways, vast impersonal streams of interstate commerce.†   (source)
  • Even in her small apartment off a six-lane interstate, there was a sense of order and quiet to her life that she had never known.†   (source)
  • A few years later, while working on another story, I found myself driving down Interstate 5, the big highway that runs between San Francisco and Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • The bus's electric motor had a top speed of about forty miles an hour, but due to the deteriorating interstate highway system and the countless stops the bus had to make at charging stations along the way, it took several days for me to reach my destination.†   (source)
  • Early Friday, after one last lecture from Nan to her kids about safety, obedience, brushing teeth in the mornings, not picking up cats with white stripes down their backs, and all manner of other things, they headed out; Nan north up Interstate 205 to Washington, and Mack and the three amigos east on Interstate 84.†   (source)
  • As my dad explains it, I never once cried, but my mom did all the way down Interstate Five South until exit 17B.†   (source)
  • We merge back onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • I was screaming in terror, but after a U-turn on a three-lane interstate, the only thing Mamaw said about the incident was "We're fine, goddammit.†   (source)
  • The new interstate highway system made it possible to rely upon trucks, instead of railroads, to ship meat.†   (source)
  • The temperature climbs to 100 degrees -- cool compared with the highs of 112 to 118 the week before, which had partially melted the asphalt on Interstate 35.†   (source)
  • "This baby's a powerhouse!" he roared, stomping the accelerator and flying up Interstate 95 as I watched Daddy's headlights through the back windshield grow dimmer and dimmer, then disappear altogether.†   (source)
  • There are so many competing farm noises in late July, all of them rising into a single high-pitched whine like the whistling of semi-trailers on the Interstate three miles away, that I'm about to wave it off, until I catch it, too: a skip in the whine, the generalized form of something familiar and specific, as though I had confused something still-voiced and close with something loud and remote.†   (source)
  • Five miles north of school, the Colonel moved into the left lane of the interstate and began to accelerate.†   (source)
  • Then he do a piece on the new Interstate 55 they gone build, going through Jackson all the way to New Orleans.†   (source)
  • The crew walked along the Interstate near Detroit and the western suburbs, picking up and bagging trash in an effort to keep the highways beautiful.†   (source)
  • …of America") — twenty minute rest stop, under a moth-beaten sodium lamp, where Popper and I ran around a deserted gas station parking lot in the dark, my head still full of the book while also exulting in the strangeness of being in my mother's state for the first time in my life—had she, on her rounds with her father, ever driven through this town, cars rushing past on the Ninth Street Interstate Exit, lighted grain silos like starships looming in the emptiness for miles away?†   (source)
  • It's pretty boring if you're just sitting there, so I slept on and off until, in the early evening, we turned off Interstate 10 somewhere in western Florida.†   (source)
  • To get there, I had to drive past the cement wall and fence that blocked it from the interstate, across a set of tracks, past churches in old storefronts, rows of boarded-up houses, and a buzzing electrical generator as big as a football field.†   (source)
  • In recent years: Armed robbers struck nineteen McDonald's and Burger King restaurants along Interstate 85 in Virginia and North Carolina.†   (source)
  • At times they could see stretches of the interstate highway below them through the bare stands of secondgrowth timber.†   (source)
  • She figured she could walk as far as the interstate; then she'd stick out her thumb for station wagons and minivans.†   (source)
  • She said Heinrich had been down at the river, wearing his camouflage cap and carrying an Instamatic, to watch them drag for the bodies, and while he was there word came that the Treadwells had been found alive but shaken in an abandoned cookie shack at the Mid-Village Mall, a vast shopping center out on the interstate.†   (source)
  • The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk.†   (source)
  • Then he got on the interstate heading west instead of east, and it took twenty minutes to turn around again.†   (source)
  • About one in the morning I was zooming along Interstate 80 and recall passing a sign that indicated we were nearing Youngstown, Ohio.†   (source)
  • The fast food industry took root alongside that interstate highway system, as a new form of restaurant sprang up beside the new off-ramps.†   (source)
  • I pull the cap down over my ears—it keeps me warm and shuts out the lonesome sounds of the trucks laboring up the hill on Interstate 99.†   (source)
  • The cars and trucks on Interstate 25, heading north to Denver and south toward Pueblo, are tiny, slow-moving specks of white.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the interstate, a new multiplex theater with twenty-four screens beckons students to cut class.†   (source)
  • It can only consult with a company that has shipped bad meat and suggest that it withdraw the meat from interstate commerce.†   (source)
  • The first Carl's Jr. restaurant opened in 1956 — the same year that America got its first shopping mall and that Congress passed the Interstate Highway Act.†   (source)
  • One historian has described the federal government's 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in "interstate socialism" — a phrase that aptly describes how the West was really won.†   (source)
  • And billboards along the interstate announced that Peter Lowe's Success 1999 was coming to Las Vegas, with special appearances by Elizabeth Dole and General Colin Powell. an empire of fat†   (source)
  • By the late 1990s, Colorado's spending on education ranked forty-ninth in the nation; fire departments throughout the state were understaffed; and parts of Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs were clogged with three times the number of cars that the highway was designed to hold.†   (source)
  • Ben rolls down the window, and I watch out the side-view mirror as the beer floats past the car and splashes onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation's history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money.†   (source)
  • Margo asked as I turned on the lights and, driving forward now, began to navigate the suburban labyrinth back toward the interstate.†   (source)
  • When it confirmed the accuracy of the book, Roosevelt called for legislation requiring mandatory federal inspection of all meat sold through interstate commerce, accurate labeling and dating of canned meat products, and a fee-based regulatory system that made meatpackers pay the cost of cleaning up their own industry.†   (source)
  • Radar turns left onto the highway at a somewhat unsafe speed, and then merges back onto the interstate.†   (source)
  • By the time Mr. (or possibly Mrs., I couldn't really see) Parson pulled open the living room curtains and looked outside, we were driving in reverse back toward Princeton Street and the interstate.†   (source)
  • The road has emptied out now; there is only me and the semitrucks, and I feel like my brain is processing information at eleven thousand times its usual pace, and it occurs to me that what I'm doing is very easy, that driving on the interstate is the easiest and most pleasant thing in the world: all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving.†   (source)
  • In the time that she'd been home, Casey had managed not only to be grounded for smoking, but also to get caught making hour-long interstate calls to Pennsylvania, drinking a beer behind the garden shed during a family barbecue, and disappearing for an entire day.†   (source)
  • It's mainly on the interstate.†   (source)
  • Traveling over twelve hours a day on a motorcycle on the interstate for three days meant I truly did not have time for any side trips.†   (source)
  • That was where he earned the nickname Psycho for taking on the biggest players on his peewee football team, where he boldly faced a loaded shotgun, where he jumped from a moving vehicle off an interstate bridge into a lake, where he saved a life, eluded capture, and performed his first nighttime raids.†   (source)
  • The flight crew outdid itself, telling their passengers the history of every landmark, town, village, interstate highway, and truck stop on the flight route, proclaiming through the interpreter the wish of all Americans for peaceful, friendly relations with the Soviet Union, expressing the professional admiration of the U.S. Air Force for the courage of the Soviet seamen, and mourning the deaths of the officers who had courageously lingered behind, allowing their men to go first.†   (source)
  • I drove south out of Phoenix until I was on the Pearl Harbor Highway, as Interstate 10 is called as it nears Ira's reservation.†   (source)
  • I left the interstate at an off ramp and pulled over next to what looked like the Flying Nun's hat made out of bumpy concrete, held up by orange poles.†   (source)
  • As to the interstate motion of freight cars, I would have to refer you to the files of Mr. Benson and of-†   (source)
  • They were the first thing the tourists saw when they exited the Interstate in the downtown: Welcome to paradise.†   (source)
  • Stop all interstate travel.†   (source)
  • The interstate, in her humble opinion, was just about the most boring stretch of roadway ever conceived.†   (source)
  • I concentrated on the street noise as a means of escape; with my eyes closed I tried to measure the distance of the coming and going of the cars on the interstate.†   (source)
  • Uniform Interstate Commerce Laws†   (source)
  • Five minutes later, we were pulling into the parking lot of the World of Waffles, a twenty-four-hour breakfast place right off the interstate.†   (source)
  • A week later the northbound Greyhound pulled across the county line, turned right on the Interstate, and headed toward its first stop in Asheville, North Carolina.†   (source)
  • They turn from Washington's beltway onto Interstate 95, the road that will lead, seven hours later, into downtown Providence.†   (source)
  • If anything has changed, it's that it's a little more difficult to go places, like driving down an interstate or walking through an airport.†   (source)
  • The interstate was a blur.†   (source)
  • Over an hour passed in tense silence before they suddenly veered off the interstate and merged onto a smaller road.†   (source)
  • Rather than waste time driving to Reno to reach the interstate, Ethan chose the more treacherous route over the mountain, into California.†   (source)
  • I'd wanted to avoid the interstate—people drove too fast—and I'd highlighted the route heavy with single-lane highways on a map I'd found in the kitchen drawer.†   (source)
  • Halfway across the parking lot, nearing the strip of dirt that separated it from the interstate on-ramp, I glanced behind me in time to see Ben go down under the weight of his burden.†   (source)
  • Paul exited the parking lot, turned into traffic, and made his way to the interstate, avoiding the rush of commuters coming in from the suburbs.†   (source)
  • We were on a back road flanked by saguaros and wildflowers, notched saguaros, pecked by birds that nested there, and then we reached the interstate and edged into the windblast of streaming traffic.†   (source)
  • For me, it wasn't the family that was there on the day I was born, but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson's on Interstate 10.†   (source)
  • I spent long days under an Interstate overpass with homeless men and women who had created an alternative culture, with laws and punishments.†   (source)
  • Hours later, in the blazing heat, as my body became numb and dehydrated from the miles of endless interstate, my sole thought was getting back to my Florida base, where I could begin my out-processing.†   (source)
  • He misses the turnoff, goes right over the grassy center to the other side, and climbs back onto the interstate, heading in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • We soon crossed Interstate 81 and an old country bridge suspended over the Middle Fork of the Holston River.†   (source)
  • There was a lilt in her voice and laugh that I'd never heard before; it was as unnatural as those strange yellow lights they had put up near the interstate to make you think it was daylight.†   (source)
  • A LIFETIME LATER, from his hiding place beneath the highway overpass, Evan watched the dark-haired girl sprint across the hotel parking lot, cross the interstate access ramp, trot a few hundred yards north on Highway 68, then pause beside an SUV to look back at the building.†   (source)
  • The van was pulling the trebuchet on a trailer; Lorenzo watched as it accelerated onto the interstate and disappeared down the ramp.†   (source)
  • Daldoum was traveling in the left lane of the westbound side of Interstate 24 between mile marker 164 and 165, a gradual left-hand curve.†   (source)
  • Some people may argue that whether the States are united or disunited, interstate commerce would achieve the same ends.†   (source)
  • By the time I got off the interstate two hours later and pulled into the parking lot of Ray's, it had already been dark for a while.†   (source)
  • They were transitioning from Interstate 210 to Interstate 10 when Rose interrupted herself to say, "Joe, could you find an exit with a service station?†   (source)
  • As soon as we left the interstate, trading the fast out-of-state tourist cars for the companionship of station wagons and pickup trucks packed with families, we were on the Cherokee Nation.†   (source)
  • He drove south, across the Dulles Access Road, past the shopping malls of Tysons Corner, to Interstate 66, where he once again headed west, toward the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains.†   (source)
  • He dropped the pan on the small concrete apron that constituted the back porch, overlooking the noisy interstate below.†   (source)
  • Shortly after sunset we left the interstate to take a two-lane road that cut through the mountains and would take about two hundred miles of New Mexico off our trip.†   (source)
  • I would drive to my stories on a pitch-black interstate, because the homeless and other poor like to strip the power lines for copper.†   (source)
  • We never knew how happy we were supposed to be until we turned off Interstate 10 and followed the sweeping traffic on one of those mall arteries that resemble a marathon of headlong metal and found her little street and saw her posing in the doorway in stately profile.†   (source)
  • So I had to turn down Hatton's offer to hang out on the Friday before Thanksgiving break to go driving on the interstate with Ray Coates, Backseat Driver.†   (source)
  • Their positions were very similar: the awkward sleeping positions of those forced to spend long hours on interstate buses.†   (source)
  • They drove through downtown and then got off the interstate in a part of the city that seemed to be comprised entirely of low-lying buildings with few window and even fewer signs informing visitors of their function.†   (source)
  • Boys who would one day drive Volvos and BMWs and sip martinis on decks, boys who knew the closest they would get to a motorcycle was breathing fumes on the interstate, talked about Harleys.†   (source)
  • The bright red car passed within a few hundred feet of the Liberty Crossing campus and continued along Interstate 66 to the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia, where it turned into the surface parking lot of the Key Bridge Marriott.†   (source)
  • I, Theodore Finch, being of unsound mind, hereby swear not to drive faster than thirty miles per hour through town, fifty on the interstate.†   (source)
  • The power of establishing post-roads is a harmless power and if managed well it may produce a great public convenience, helping interstate commerce.†   (source)
  • When I looked up from my books to the people around me—truckers, people who'd come off the interstate for coffee to make another mile, the occasional crazy—I'd have that same feeling that I did the day my mother announced the separation.†   (source)
  • Soon enough she was turning the corner by the monument factory with its rows of tombstones, headed for the interstate.†   (source)
  • I hung up the telephone and got in my car and just drove, not to home but away from it, going east on Interstate 20 until I crossed over the South Carolina border.†   (source)
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