en route

Example Sentences

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It also seized an Iranian-flagged ship, Touska, which was en route to Iran’s Bandar Abbas on Sunday, after it failed to comply with warnings over a six-hour period, U.S.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

In the space of a single offseason, returning largely the same core, they morphed into a superteam, torching their opponents by 8.3 points nightly en route to a 62-20 record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Betts’ viral block is what sealed UCLA’s win over Texas at the Final Four en route to the Bruins’ championship win earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

The Nasdaq Composite got a boost from an old friend en route to its ninth-consecutive gain.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

I stepped portentously on to the path, a fragment of the original Appalachian Trail from the days when it passed here en route from Mount Oglethorpe to Springer.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson