down the road
Example Sentences
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But it’s worth remembering that Congress consistently kicks the can down the road until it has no choice but to act, and that’s likely to be true in this case as well.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
You could purchase a hybrid life insurance and long-term-care policy for around $100,000 to $200,000, leaving you the funds to cover at-home care if you needed it down the road.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
That’s entirely within baseball’s rules, someone else’s headache down the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And then having a new build where it is, down the road from their current ground, deals with the potentially thorny problem about where United would play if Old Trafford was closed for a period.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
She’d climb trees, the tallest she could find, so that she might look out past her shtetl, her village, down the road and past the horizon.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
