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How to pronounce beltway in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bypass, ring road, ringway
Type of highway, main road

Examples of beltway

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It is an idea which has been floating around inside the beltway for a long time.
From the chron.com
Interstate 295 functions as a partial beltway encircling Providence to the west.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Ordinarily, such a facility would be located somewhere in the Washington beltway.
From the post-gazette.com
Assuming the Supreme Court would alone have that prerogative is beltway thinking.
From the washingtontimes.com
Interstate 820 is a spur of Interstate 20 and serves as a beltway for the city.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That's a 25-mile toll road that would complete the beltway around Central Florida.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Without the land buffer, the Legislature said, the beltway could not be built.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Northern Virginia, home to many beltway bandit companies, ranks No. 4 on our list.
From the forbes.com
City B has an even-numbered circumferential beltway and an odd-numbered spur.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
  • A ring road (also known as beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town or city.
  • The Loop is a beltway around Texarkana, a twin city in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Texas, running about 16 miles (26 km). Consisting of Highway 245 - sometimes called Loop 245 - in Arkansas, and Loop 151 and a section of U.S. ...
  • Interstate 495 (abbreviated I-495) is a Interstate Highway that surrounds the United States' capital of Washington, D.C. and its inner suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway or simply the Beltway, especially when the context of Washington, D.C. is clear. ...
  • A freeway that encircles a city
  • A beltway is a freeway that completely encircles a metropolitan area. Examples include Interstate 495 around Washington, D.C., and Interstate 465 around Indianapolis, Indiana. There are not as many full beltways west of the Mississippi River.
  • (aka the Capitol Beltway) is a highway that encircles Washington, DC and cuts through parts of suburban Maryland and Virginia. A less literal meaning is when this term is used to reference matters solely important to Washington, DC workers or inhabitants. ...
  • The circumferential roadway around Washington DC, inside of which bribes and payoffs are collected for redistributing the wealth of the nation to the top 12% of individuals and corporations and their purchased representatives.
  • A 53-mile freeway forming a two-thirds loop around the Las Vegas valley.