Explore Motorways through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Motorways meaning
plural of motorway
Using Motorways
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of motorway
- In the example corpus, motorways often appears in combinations such as: smart motorways, of motorways, and motorways.
Context around Motorways
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 3 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Motorways
- In this selection, "motorways" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smart, standard, two, main, runs and running stand out and add context to how "motorways" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include france s motorways could be and also disrupted motorways last year. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "motorways" sits close to words such as armament, bassett and bullshit, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with motorways
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Emergency Refuge Areas appear on smart motorways. (7 words)
Motorways main Motorways are identified by A followed by a number. (11 words)
Motorways A system of motorways that run between the main cities has been developed. (14 words)
Speed limit on France’s motorways could be put to a referendum - Following the Citizen’s Climate Convention held over the weekend the speed limit on France’s motorways could be the subject to a referendum. (36 words)
Motorways main The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country. (34 words)
Depending on the route it'll take you between three and four hours to reach the stunning coastline from the East Midlands on a journey that is largely devoid of motorways. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Speed limit on France’s motorways could be put to a referendum - Following the Citizen’s Climate Convention held over the weekend the speed limit on France’s motorways could be the subject to a referendum.
An all-party parliamentary group, chaired by former transport minister Sir Mike Penning, will look at whether smart motorways are more dangerous for drivers than standard motorways.
A series of motorways runs along the coast from Paphos east to Ayia Napa, with two motorways running inland to Nicosia, one from Limassol and one from Larnaca.
Motorways A system of motorways that run between the main cities has been developed.
Motorways main Motorways are identified by A followed by a number.
Motorways main The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country.
Motorways Uruguay has a rather small network of motorways, owing to the low demand due to sparse population outside the capital.
And the news that the government has stopped the building of smart motorways has pleased one letter writer to our sister print title the Express and Echo.
A number of roadworks will be in place on Kent’s vital motorways this week.
Around 10 per cent of England’s motorway network is made up of smart motorways.
Blockades by aggrieved lorry drivers in 2000 caused huge disruption in Britain, while protesters upset by high fuel prices also disrupted motorways last year.
Depending on the route it'll take you between three and four hours to reach the stunning coastline from the East Midlands on a journey that is largely devoid of motorways.
Emergency Refuge Areas appear on smart motorways.
In Poland last week he saw tanks — ‘loads of them’ — being delivered by French convoys on the motorways.
It was a time when conventional wisdom would tell us that people can only travel by cars and motorways.
Meanwhile, the RAC called the plans a "watershed announcement", saying its research showed that smart motorways were "deeply unpopular with drivers".
Nick Harris, chief executive of National Highways, said: "Safety is our highest priority and we are committed to further improving all-lane running motorways.
One would need to drive up the motorway and cross the Prince of Wales bridge to get between the two - via two major motorways, the M5 and the M4.
Perhaps thanks to its direct route past Heathrow Airport, the M4 eastbound is the slowest section of all of London’s motorways, with speeds reaching just 22.7 miles per hour.
Plans for new smart motorways will be cancelled, delivering on the Prime Minister’s summer campaign pledge.
Common combinations with motorways
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smart motorways 24×
- of motorways 24×
- and motorways 16×
- motorways and 14×
- on motorways 10×
- motorways in 10×
- motorways are 7×
- motorways were 7×
- the motorways 6×
- two motorways 4×