How to Use signpost in a Sentence

signpost

1 of 2 noun

• The signpost says it is 10 miles to the city.
• And frankly, the look bore all of the signposts of the brand.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
• That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone!
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Ford Focus went off the left side of the road and struck a signpost at 4950 Paddock Road.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2021
• This allows riders to lock the bike to a rack or signpost at the end of their trip.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Dec. 2018
• All three restaurant names can be seen in the signpost out front.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• But for two players – Alex Len and Danuel House – the game was a signpost for what lies ahead.
  — Scott Bordow, azcentral, 8 Apr. 2018
• For the best views and most variety, head right at the signpost and into the core of the uphill trek.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
• The time when trees change color and then drop their leaves is a signpost of the year, a mark of the familiar cycle of the seasons.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• Family and friends pose for photos with Gray and his wife by the signpost.
  — al, 12 Jan. 2022
• So the runes end up working more as blatant signposts than hints.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 July 2019
• Babbling is seen as a very early signpost on the road to language.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
• In the postwar era, slave markets and jails served as signposts of how far the nation had come since the Civil War.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• On the surface, King Charles has followed the same signposts that have dotted the royal road for decades.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• Still, the longer-term picture may look greener if the current mood in Germany proves to be a signpost.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2022
• Those are the most important signposts of a fish fry worth eating, but the rest of the meal can set apart one dinner from the others.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2020
• The signpost is typical of those posted on one-way streets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Sometimes an old signpost pops up again with a certain scent, or with a piece of music.
  — Frances Leech, Longreads, 3 May 2018
• In its place is a pizza slice with a metal signpost driven through it.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 31 Dec. 2020
• But the latest update to the map will be a small one: a new signpost in a German rapeseed field, now the heart of the European Union.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2017
• There are no tollbooths, no cameras, not even a signpost.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Brown’s order is a signpost and an inspiration, a clear vision of where the state needs to go.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 11 Sep. 2018
• It was marked by a signpost driven into a mound of dirt and topped with a small sign with three blue numbers painted on it — 672.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• A half-mile away, his giant rack popped up amid the vegetation like a signpost.
  — Dermot Cole, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Sep. 2017
• Joy is a feel-good fuel that uplifts our work and is a signpost for what really lights us up.
  — Amina Altai, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The two were clinging to a signpost atop their vehicle, the Sheriff's Office said.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Araqib isn’t listed on official maps, and there’s no signpost or slip road from the highway.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• Only all the precedents in Hollywood, and every signpost the script is pointing to, know for sure.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 May 2020
• Does also visit signpost rubs and smell them to see if her preferred buck has been there lately.
  — Hal Blood, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
• Blessings are signposts to the sacraments, not substitutes for them.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023

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signpost

2 of 2 verb

• The road from here to London is well signposted.
• There’s no road leading to the sculpture and the tracks that criss-cross nearby desert aren’t clearly signposted.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• The caves are signposted with warnings to not enter near the monsoon season.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• If you're headed for a small or midsize town, know which big city is nearby (and most likely to be signposted) to keep you headed in the right direction.
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2017
• These are the kind of choices that signpost personality.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 June 2018
• Younger audiences might be aghast at some of the old-school sexist attitudes that prevailed at the time, and the filmmakers do a great job at using this one-of-a-kind event to signpost certain advances through the prism of the sports world.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• There are certain solos or musical passages in songs that are really signposts to that song, and other parts that can be more fluid.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 July 2017
• Anti-racist messages will be signposted around cricket grounds, as well as on screens and delivered by on-ground announcers.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• First, be warned that Simple includes a not-so-simple code in which different letters signpost different qualities in the recipes.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• The poem also signposted a creator who had a real ear for words, and could understand their rhythm and musicality.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2020
• And the story the clothes told this fashion week was one of redefinition: a change in the hierarchy of aspiration and wealth, the sartorial codes that signpost power and success.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers may have found a hormone that signposts autism by studying rhesus macaque monkeys.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2018
• Time has shown us that photographs can signpost the escape routes from essentialising Western visual regimes.
  — Vogue, 12 Sep. 2022
• In the Netherlands, a number of key portals have been developed by central government agencies, such as Overheid.nl and Ondernemersplein.nl, with these portals designed to help signpost citizens to the correct resources.
  — Lauri Haav, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Key items and pathways that should be obviously signposted can also sometimes be too well-hidden in the crowded environments, a fact that can lead to hours of fruitless searching for the apparent next step in the game's progression.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2020
• Teenagedom might be the phase of life most vividly signposted by pop culture, which has coughed up uncountable tales of bullies and outcasts, cheerleaders and quarterbacks, virginity anxieties and prom-posals, and so on.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2019
• Where this relates to the medical profession is that physicians appear to be systematically failing to signpost patients in their care at risk of falls and serious injury at home towards adaptive equipment.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• People posting such content have found ways to evade moderation, including vague nods that signpost for users more explicit material on other platforms, or through inside jokes, memes and references that mock or glorify genocide.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• The road from here to London is well signposted.
• There’s no road leading to the sculpture and the tracks that criss-cross nearby desert aren’t clearly signposted.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• The caves are signposted with warnings to not enter near the monsoon season.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• If you're headed for a small or midsize town, know which big city is nearby (and most likely to be signposted) to keep you headed in the right direction.
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2017
• These are the kind of choices that signpost personality.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 June 2018
• Younger audiences might be aghast at some of the old-school sexist attitudes that prevailed at the time, and the filmmakers do a great job at using this one-of-a-kind event to signpost certain advances through the prism of the sports world.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
• There are certain solos or musical passages in songs that are really signposts to that song, and other parts that can be more fluid.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 July 2017
• Anti-racist messages will be signposted around cricket grounds, as well as on screens and delivered by on-ground announcers.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• First, be warned that Simple includes a not-so-simple code in which different letters signpost different qualities in the recipes.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• The poem also signposted a creator who had a real ear for words, and could understand their rhythm and musicality.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2020
• And the story the clothes told this fashion week was one of redefinition: a change in the hierarchy of aspiration and wealth, the sartorial codes that signpost power and success.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers may have found a hormone that signposts autism by studying rhesus macaque monkeys.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2018

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