How to Use down the road in a Sentence

down the road

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  • Makes one to eat and one to freeze or give away to save you time down the road!
    — ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • In fact, the city is well down the road in its big-game hunting.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • The man obliged, helped Murdock mount up, and led him down the road.
    — Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Midwest Living, 19 July 2026
  • Dodge the question, scold the critics and kick the can down the road.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • That’s a lot to put on someone who will be redeemed and is a hero down the road.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • So questions that they may get asked or be getting asked down the road, that’s the worst part.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Kavanagh said more challenges await Ukraine down the road, too.
    — Elise Spenner, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • Pretty soon, politicians won’t be able to kick this can down the road anymore.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
  • And, there will likely be more flights for B1071 down the road.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 July 2026
  • My daddy’s house is down the road from the studio, because that studio is on my dad’s land.
    — Ivie Ani, VIBE.com, 30 July 2026
  • The video showed the couple cruising down the road while their children goofed around in the backseat.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The witness claimed that Zenk attempted to flee the scene, but was stopped a few feet down the road.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
  • However, the worry is that this could create cap problems down the road.
    — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Balance is something that comes from your core and helps improve your quality of life down the road.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Critics are wary about what this new ownership could mean for EA games down the road.
    — ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • More officers were stashed throughout the dim warehouse, and still more waited miles down the road for the signal.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
  • There’s new plumbing and electric, too, so hopefully no surprises down the road.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 20 July 2026
  • Less attention is given to what happens to the roof five, 10, or 20 years down the road.
    — Taylor Wishart, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Prosecutors said Guy then left the store and walked down the road away from Valencia.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
  • Does driver assist remain active for the life of the vehicle, or is it tied to a subscription down the road?
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Not to mention, vines on siding can potentially cause structural problems down the road.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 19 July 2026
  • As a final tip, separate new canes and fruiting canes to make pruning easier for yourself down the road.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 18 July 2026
  • But doing so can result in larger repair bills down the road that, in some cases, could exceed the value of older cars.
    — Keith Laing, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Less than an hour down the road is a national monument that protects the land and homes of the ancestral Puebloans.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • Just a few minutes down the road is Holetown, where luxury shopping and grocery stores await.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
  • Pereira added that one hope down the road is to potentially add two screening rooms to the upstairs (15-seat theater venues).
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 July 2026
  • But adding capacity also raises the specter of a potential supply glut down the road if demand cools off.
    — Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Growing up down the road from this small establishment, Gardner could smell the woodsmoke from her grandparents' house.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • As the rain began to pick up and mist rolled into the mountains, a few of us hopped in the working car to visit a cafe 4 miles down the road at a seaside campground.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
  • In many cases, putting off repairs can lead to bigger breakdowns, higher energy bills and much more expensive fixes down the road.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 25 July 2026

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