How to Use crossroad in a Sentence

crossroad

noun

• Traffic was stopped at the crossroad.
• We turned onto a crossroad.
• And the streets around the bustling crossroads of 14th and U were alive with celebrities.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• The Swahili coast of East Africa is home to a crossroads culture.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Ivy Ross feels at home at the crossroads of art and design.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
• The crossroads comes mainly in the form of Marek Hamsik and Dries Mertens.
  — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Play hard and have fun.’’ High school marks the crossroads of this dilemma.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
• Campbell said the deputies were at a crossroads at this point.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 July 2024
• There’s still a lot of time left in the season, but with just more than half the year’s games in the books, the Union are at a bit of a crossroads.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
• In the autumn of 2022, Nilüfer Yanya found herself at a crossroads.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024
• That crossroad came for Zwack two years ago as a sophomore at Xavier.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 16 July 2021
• Image Five years ago the Gibbs were at a crossroads in their careers.
  — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 28 May 2018
• Eight years ago, Marzuq Umar Robert Muhammad was at a crossroads in his life.
  — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
• The library has the potential to be the crossroads the neighborhood lacks.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
• Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads.
  — Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• By April of 1967, public opinion about the Vietnam War had come to a crossroads.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
• But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Easy: fans see the first (of many) rash deals to trade one life for another, thanks to a crossroads demon.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 31 July 2019
• At a crossroads, the company went all-in on a product that at the time was just a small part of its business.
  — jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• At the crossroad of the not-so-distant past and the immediate present lies a question.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Then slam on the brakes and make a 16-point turn right there rather than, say, continuing to the next side street or crossroad.
  — Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2022
• Rafah is an old crossroads, known to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• The beloved institution is at a crossroads in more ways than one.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• The crossroads had long been a stop where truckers filled their fuel tanks and their bellies.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• At each crossroad, the machine turned right by default.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• In it, the mother of four is at a crossroads in her relationship.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The win over Szpilka sets Chisora up for a crossroads fight against Parker, which will take place before the end of the year.
  — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 22 July 2019
• This is the exact crossroads that Stranger Things finds itself at in its third season.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2019
• Zanzibar, Tanzania Zanzibar is a crossroads of the senses.
  — Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
• The healthcare industry finds itself at a crossroads, where none of the key players — payers, providers, or patients — are truly satisfied with the current system.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025