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divided highway
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The road was mostly two-lane blacktop, but there were sections of divided highway, too.
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divided highway

n. (context US English) A dual carriageway

WordNet
divided highway

n. a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions; "in England they call a divided highway a dual carriageway" [syn: dual carriageway]

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Divided Highway

Divided Highway is a compilation album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 2003. (see 2003 in music). All tracks are taken from the albums Cycles (1989) and Brotherhood (1991).

Usage examples of "divided highway".

It was a short one, up a divided highway, over a cloverleaf interchange built under the reign of the Shah, then west to Hasanabad.

At this point, ioi was a four-lane divided highway, so the motor home couldn't have gotten across the median to turn south.

Ten cars and sixteen men were now racing down the divided highway from various directions and various patrol areas, merely knowing that Plan W had been implemented.

He takes it out, The headlights of an oncoming big rig, on the far side of the divided highway, throw enough light into the car for him to see the contents of the jar.

In a few minutes they were back on the divided highway, heading south, a motley, ragged wagon train of dilapidated and antiquated vehicles filled with shouting, singing people and complaining animals.

The police cars cut across the grassy strip between the divided highway and picked up the chase almost on the rear bumper of the Mercedes, passing around it and rushing toward the aircraft the officers thought was in the hands of either a drug addict or a drunk.

First, the picture showed a six-lane divided highway with white concrete pavement.

The road opened up into a four-lane divided highway, two lanes each way, and Elise took the left of her two lanes so she could pass the slower cars, including the Oldsmobile with the face-making kid.

The pilgrim walked down the right side of the divided highway which in some places, for some forgotten historical reasons, was called a turnpike and in others an interstate.

Though Mahmoud was sweating heavily, he was uncharacteristically calm, even when the newer, faster Peugeots and Fiats passed them on the divided highway.

Just past the start of the divided highway, the sky grew almost black and several enormous drops spattered the windshield.