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How To Use turnpike In A Sentence

• My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
• Bosses announced the company was consolidating three offices into a new building on the Turnpike Business Park.
• Agricultural yields were improving and the development of turnpike roads and canals later in the century enabled food to be transported more quickly to areas of shortage.
• The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
• If we can tear down a block of historical buildings in Hong Kong and replace them with the 'skysore' like the Lippo Centre in less than a year why does it take eons to gentrify a bit of the turnpike? Jeff DeGraff: The Innovation Do-Over List
• My apartment looks out to the New Jersey turnpike and Silver Lake Park.
• Preliminary numbers show that about 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles were traveling on the road each day, a turnpike spokesman said.
• The average length of a turnpike road was 30 miles, and the number of trustees varied from 15 to 237.
• In assessing their contribution it should be borne in mind that many parish roads were improved while many turnpikes were neglected.
• I do not remember that they were molested, even by the guns of General Wagner, who had been foolishly posted with two small brigades across the turnpike, a half-mile in our front, where he was needless for apprisal and powerless for resistance. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1