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- 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.†
Chpt 6standard 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.
- Misty's voice was like she had a megaphone, and I could imagine my mother's ears perking with the sound of my name in spite of Al Jolson and cars on the interstate and spaghetti sauce gurgling and spitting.†
Chpt 6
- It was warm and there was practically no breeze, the tendrils of ivy on the cemetery gate barely moving; I could hear the cars passing on the interstate, the whoosh of their passing, rising and falling like ocean waves.†
Chpt 8
- I stared down, at the grease stains on the concrete, at the bright yard beyond the shade of the carport, seeing clover patches and a huge bumblebee, the sway of the oaks lining our driveway, taking in the smell of cut grass and the sound of a distant mower droning like the window units and the traffic of the interstate.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
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- 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.†
Chpt 18
- As we drove away, I saw Merle walk over and join a crowd of people standing at the front of the Clemmonsville High School, and I felt the thirty-mile ride along the interstate beginning to lengthen.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(interstate as in: interstate commerce) freeway, or highway that runs between states
or:
relating to the mutual relations between states -- especially of the United StatesNote that interstate is often contrasted with intrastate. An intrastate highway is used to move from one location in a state to another, rather than to move between states. Similarly, interstate commerce is business between states; whereas intrastate commerce affects a state without affecting other states. Under the U.S. Constitution, the interstate/intrastate distinction is important when determining when the federal government has authority to override state government. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)