Sentence examples for retired the interstate from inspiring English sources

But they are a powerful, imaginative lobby for a version of American life that hasn't existed since the late 1950's and early 60's, when the national railroads' steam engines were retired, the interstate highways were built, air travel became common and the great golden age of locomotion and riding the rails rolled to a stop.

The Swiss Air Force retired the P-3 fleet in 1995.

Kershaw retired the next two batters.

"Retire the number generally.

It was under MacDonald that the Bureau in the '30s and '40s developed plans for what became the interstate highway system, although MacDonald himself retired a few years before Congress passed and President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which finally provided a means to fund the interstates.

If the idea has a bit of Harold Hill-like grandeur about it for a modest city of 30,000 just off the interstate and midway between Des Moines and Minneapolis, Mr. Miller, a retired college athletic director, looks askance at skepticism.

The constant rumble of the interstate.

The interstate highway system equals nihilism.

/ That is, exit off the interstate.

1968, they built the interstate.

They headed east on the interstate.