interstatein a sentence
interstate as in: interstate commerce
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There was an accident on the interstate.interstate = freeway, or highway that runs between statesstandard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
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Some states instituted interstate travel restrictions during the pandemic.interstate = between state
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Even interstates run east/west while odd ones run north/south.interstates = freeways, or highways that run between states
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We'll make good time once we're on the interstate.interstate = freeway
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All interstates were on alert, and a quarantine belt was now in place.† (source)
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Big interstates like this one make the country into a single place: McDonald's, BP, Wendy's.† (source)
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Twelve miles on foot brought him to Topock, Arizona, a dusty way station along Interstate 40 where the freeway intersects the California border. (source)Interstate = a road that runs through more than one state in the United Statesstandard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
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Soon, after she realized I was the same age as her daughter, she started calling me "Boo," and insisted I buy a cell phone because she worried about me driving the interstates alone.† (source)
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I'd thought I would see the cities, but mostly I saw truck stops and interstate. (source)
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It shuts down interstates, airports, schools, and all commerce, but he knows nothing of this as he retreats to his room.† (source)
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He opens his eyes to see they have stopped on the interstate. (source)
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And then, in the middle distance, when you view the dense overlay of towns and villages laid out in contiguous patches, the multiple strands of the interstates and the parkways running straight through the heart of some and bending deferentially around others, bounded and marked by the shimmering waterways and reservoirs and the gently sloped hills, you feel as though this place in which you stand is a most decent and comely kingdom, even as it is a solemn province of the dead.† (source)
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But when we broke off the interstate and started navigating the burned-out landscape of the Bronx, we could feel her energy shifting. (source)
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After more than 1,100 miles on interstates, it's finally time to exit.† (source)
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Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation. (source)
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I took my time going home, avoiding interstates in favor of back roads.† (source)
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