How to Use crosswalk in a Sentence

crosswalk

noun
  • Do not block a crosswalk when stopped at a red light or waiting to make a turn.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Then, there’s a new stoplight or a new crosswalk, but only then.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The street did not have a crosswalk or streetlights, according to the report.
    Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The student was riding their bike to school in the crosswalk on Highway 67 when a car struck them.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Geiss said people drive between 30 and 40 miles per hour on the road, and highlighted the need for a crosswalk.
    Cameron Goodnight, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2021
  • Snape also hit the 6-year-old boy, who was walking in the crosswalk on Ocean Boulevard toward the beach.
    al, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Detectives learned the man was walking south on 56th Street outside of a crosswalk when he was hit by a white pickup truck.
    Jamie Landers, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Imagine getting into a driverless car that is about to approach a massive pedestrian crosswalk, and suddenly the signal drops out.
    Sylvia Jablonski, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Authorities have identified the woman who was fatally hit by a truck in Plymouth while in a crosswalk in her wheelchair.
    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The crosswalk is in lower mid-town, between Maryland Avenue and Columbia Pike.
    Janet Kusterer, baltimoresun.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Video from before the arrest shows Garrett standing in a crosswalk on Jefferson Street, holding a cross that has become his signature at protests.
    Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2021
  • More than half of fatal pedestrian crashes occur in the roadway but not in a crosswalk or an intersection, while just 10% happen at intersections with marked crosswalks.
    Jamie Landers, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2021
  • Troyah, laying in the southeast crosswalk of the intersection, was struck by a white van traveling northwest on South Dakota Avenue.
    Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2021
  • That's when the driver hit the man in the crosswalk and sped away.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 16 Feb. 2022
  • At one point the bear even crossed the street by using the crosswalk.
    CBS News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Police said the boy was not in a crosswalk when he was struck.
    Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 8 June 2021
  • The sidewalk on the north side would switch to the south side with a crosswalk at Woolsey Avenue.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Without looking, a kid just crossed the street in the crosswalk.
    Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • The woman, headed north in the crosswalk, had the right of way, police said.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The driver failed to stop at a stop sign and hit the pedestrians in a crosswalk.
    Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • And a crosswalk for the people in the apartment who jaywalk.
    Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
  • Dozens of people streamed out of the subway and into the crosswalk.
    New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • The boy was in the crosswalk when he was struck by the vehicle in the area of Great Road near Harris Street at about 6:15 p.m.
    Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Both were crossing the street in a marked crosswalk at the time of the collision, police said.
    David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The girl was in a crosswalk on a scooter and with a woman and two other children at the time.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • The City Council will consider the request to paint the crosswalks April 5.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The victim wasn’t crossing in a crosswalk and stepped in front of the Mercedes driver.
    Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The colors of the rainbow flag are painted into the crosswalks.
    USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • The girls appeared to have been mid-block, away from the crosswalk, when the incident happened, the email said.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Lofton continued driving for a bit before stopping in the crosswalk near the east side of Miller Park Way.
    Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024

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