Definition of "state highway" [state highway]

• A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the early afternoon, he drove them back across the bridge and headed north along the state highway that soon headed back west again along the river."
• "He was glad for the comfort because he was a passenger in Jack's latest vehicle, an ancient postal jeep, on a twisting state highway en route to Halle's cabin."
• "Sociologists and state highway officials noted an increase in makeshift shrines such as those found at car crash sites on the sides of roads, or spray-painted on the walls of inner city streets, inviting an audience from any and all passersby."