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  1. highwaysnoun

    Plural noun of the word highway.

    The highways agency ensured the highway was gritted during the icy and snowy weather.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 31, 2017  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of highways in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of highways in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of highways in a Sentence

  1. James Joseph Sylvester:

    The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

  2. Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw:

    We're going to deploy strike teams of DPS special agents to conduct surveillance and look for these cloned vehicles, stolen vehicles that are staged along the highways used to smuggle people… and also identify stash houses, which is very important to disrupting Mexican cartel operations.

  3. James Dean:

    I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I’m extra cautious because no one knows what they’re doing half the time. You don’t know what this guy is going to do or that one.

  4. Katherine Pruitt:

    Then, the other aspect is, when you have a community of color that is a voluntary community, people aren’t forced to live there, those are communities that tend to have less of a voice, so decision makers place polluting sources in those communities because there’s not as much howling by people with power when they do. So those communities get the highways; they get the landfills; they get the fence lines.

  5. Gianfranco Bettin:

    The excavations of canals, in particular the one dedicated to oil tankers, have opened highways to the sea, global warming has contributed by increasing the sea level and the strength of the winds that push the water towards the city.

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