Used in a Sentence

carriageway

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for carriageway.

Editorial note

Fairly regularly an 80-something will end up driving down the wrong carriageway of a motorway or dual carriageway.

Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of carriageway gathered in one view.

noun

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.

noun

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for carriageway.

noun

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.

noun

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.

Example sentences

1

Fairly regularly an 80-something will end up driving down the wrong carriageway of a motorway or dual carriageway.

2

So on a motorway or dual carriageway the limit is really 79.

3

What's worse is that the inbuilt mapping in a lot of new cars think bits of it are 70mph dual carriageway when it's still single carriageway, and vice-versa.

4

> So on a motorway or dual carriageway the limit is really 79.

5

I know someone who drove off the road (60mph single carriageway) at high speed and into a bollard.

6

I was cycling along a dual carriageway and a tractor driver behind me used his horn aggressively (i.e.

7

Don't know what country you're in, but cycling down a dual carriageway is not particulary uncommon where I live.

8

The road this happened on frequently has three lanes on a carriageway.

9

Should I say that observing every vehicle across the median on the oncoming carriageway is inefficient?

10

Finally, your last point about the dual carriageway misses the point completely.

11

West Oxfordshire District Council is currently trying to find a way to stop a certain demographic from racing ponies and traps on the A40 dual carriageway.

12

I was recently driving around a hire car that had this enormous screen that became blindingly bright after sunset on unlit carriageway.

Quote examples

1

The truck driver is taking time from *all* drivers on "roughly 4.5 miles of dual carriageway", just so that they can end the day 5 miles ahead.

2

Same - driven up and down there countless times, but I still sometimes get alarmed on some of the dual carriageway parts where you can't see the other carriageway and I have a momentary panic of "This is a dual carriageway, isn't it?".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use carriageway in a sentence?

Fairly regularly an 80-something will end up driving down the wrong carriageway of a motorway or dual carriageway.

What does carriageway mean?

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.

What part of speech is carriageway?

carriageway is commonly used as noun.