Below you will find example sentences with "speed limit". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Speed Limit in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: speed
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 52
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.1 words

Words in this phrase

speed limit

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • speed can mean: The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion. Frequent word
  • limit can mean: A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a default speed limit that applies 1× a new speed limit of 25 1× a new speed limit of 50mph 1× above the speed limit of 11 1× breaking the speed limit last summer 1× details about speed limit enforcement and 1× double the speed limit within a 1× driving the speed limit 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a prima facie 1× fines double if 1× he noted that 1× in 2017 idaho 1× it regularly picked 1× more details about 1×

Common sentence endings:

and collision warnings 1× by a driver 1× driving too fast 1× government websites respectively 1× has been proposed 1× in the winter 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

limits 5× convert 4× mph 4× posted 3× road 3× driving 3× warnings 3× motorways 3× specific 2× may 2× driver 2× vehicle 2×

Related phrases

limit superior limit inferior exposure limit speed limits high speed maximum speed average speed speed test

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around speed:

speed limits 15× high speed 11× maximum speed 8× average speed 7× speed test 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

speech recognition specifically designed specific impulse specific criteria specialty coffee specialist crime

Just after it in the phrase index:

speed limits speed test spend less spending cuts spin group spiritual development

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

speed limits speed test

Same ending:

exposure limit

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "speed limit" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a default speed limit that applies, a new speed limit of 25, limits, convert and mph stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with limit superior, limit inferior, exposure limit, speed limits, high speed and maximum speed, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with speed limit

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

More details about speed limit enforcement and the 20mph limit can be found on the GoSafe and Welsh Government websites respectively. (21 words)

Speed limits The Australian national heavy vehicle speed limit is convert, excepting: * NSW & Queensland where the speed limit for any road train is convert. (24 words)

Speed Limit Reductions Designed To Prevent Traffic-Related DeathsSpeed limit reductions are being put in place as part of Denver's "Vision Zero" campaign. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

Nearly seven out of ten boats traveled above the speed limit of 11.5 miles per hour, through either mandatory or voluntary slow zones, and one boat traveled as fast as 26.7 miles per hour – more than double the speed limit – within a mandatory slow zone. (47 words)

It regularly picked up a 35kmh cornering advisory speed notice just down from my house, decided that was the speed limit for the next stretch of road (which is in fact a 50kmh zone) and proceeded to ‘‘beep’’ me with warnings that I was driving too fast. (47 words)

Over the weekend, reports emerged alleging that the Home Secretary asked officials to try to arrange a private speed awareness course for her rather than take penalty points on her driving licence after breaking the speed limit last summer. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

A prima facie speed limit is a default speed limit that applies when no other specific speed limit is posted, and which may be exceeded by a driver.

Speed limits of 10 to 90 km/h are also used in increments of 10 km/h, and the posted speed limit may be more than the allowed speed limit for a particular vehicle type.

Speed limits The Australian national heavy vehicle speed limit is convert, excepting: * NSW & Queensland where the speed limit for any road train is convert.

He noted that many other motorists are exceeding the speed limit so they are usually riding the bumper of any traffic driving the speed limit.

Nearly seven out of ten boats traveled above the speed limit of 11.5 miles per hour, through either mandatory or voluntary slow zones, and one boat traveled as fast as 26.7 miles per hour – more than double the speed limit – within a mandatory slow zone.

The board will also decide whether to rescind the regulatory speed limit on about a dozen streets and impose a new speed limit of 25 mph.

Parents will also be able to lock the car’s maximum speed limit, and prevent younger drivers turning off speed limit warnings, automatic emergency braking and collision warnings.

To reduce the “severity of injuries to the public”, a new speed limit of 50mph and extending Bradwell’s 40mph speed limit has been proposed.

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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.

The report recommends that city council make changes to the speed limit bylaw by lowering the unposted speed limit from 50 km/h to 40 km/h within the city limits.

Speed sign recognition: this speed limit information system reads the signs and displays the speed in the driver’s field of vision, on the HUD display at the base of the windscreen.

Speed limits Office buildings line Kehä I in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki Speed limits change depending on the time of the year; the maximum speed limit on motorways is convert in the summer and convert in the winter.

Fines double if you're caught going 20 mph over the limit, and you can lose your license for six months for going 100 mph faster than the posted speed limit.

More details about speed limit enforcement and the 20mph limit can be found on the GoSafe and Welsh Government websites respectively.

The warning chimes also get a little annoying, especially in moments where the speed limit registering in the car is different to the actual limit.

Speed Limit Reductions Designed To Prevent Traffic-Related DeathsSpeed limit reductions are being put in place as part of Denver's "Vision Zero" campaign.

The Why Limit Us? movement calls for road authorities to increase the speed limit on the Princes Highway between Colac and Werribee from 100 to 110kmh, in line with similar major arterial roads across Victoria.

In 2017, Idaho passed a law that allows drivers to speed up to 15 MPH over the speed limit but only in a very specific situation.

It regularly picked up a 35kmh cornering advisory speed notice just down from my house, decided that was the speed limit for the next stretch of road (which is in fact a 50kmh zone) and proceeded to ‘‘beep’’ me with warnings that I was driving too fast.

Over the weekend, reports emerged alleging that the Home Secretary asked officials to try to arrange a private speed awareness course for her rather than take penalty points on her driving licence after breaking the speed limit last summer.

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