WordNet
n. a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport
Usage examples of "highway system".
Today there would still be no federal highway system, no drive-in burger joints, a gajillion fewer chase movies than Hollywood has thus far churned out, and none of those aesthetically pleasing wobbly-headed dog statues with which so many of us accessorize the ledge between the backseat and the rear window.
She could hit the interstate highway system and in half an hour could be anywhere in the Detroit area, or have crossed over into Windsor, Canada.
He had masterminded the Tri-States, and knew the highway system as well as he knew his right and left hands.
He had seen the highway system from twenty miles height, and ten, and five.
Any kind of serious weirdness moving on the interstate highway system is just naturally going to be logged and passed along down the line—.
Any kind of serious weirdness moving on the interstate highway system is just naturally going to be logged and passed along down the line-and a convoy of two dozen converted buses, containing people not one of whom is wearing a necktie or pantyhose, definitely fits the cop definition of serious weirdness.
The measures you propose establishing checkpoints along our waterways and throughout our highway system and at state borders are understandable.
Asad Khalil is now somebody else, and he's on the great American highway system.
To weld our country together and develop it, a highway system must be built through this still-unexplored jungle-an almost insurmountable task, according to skilled engineers.
Thirdly, the driver had to be so pissed off at an ex that his anger would keep him awake and alert to the dangers of the Canadian highway system, which was pretty much like the American system only with more moose, for the entire seventeen hours.
In the case of the highway system, the advice had gone counter, indeed it had.