How to Use stoplight in a Sentence

stoplight

noun
  • Cars are parked along the street next to the sidewalk, and in the next lane, four cars wait at a stoplight.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
  • With its cool look and flashy two-tone color schemes, folks will take gawk at the RAV4 Prime at the stoplight.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Don’t try to get moving in a hurry and take time to slow down for a stoplight.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
  • James painted her a little stoplight and the rest of the men are slacking!!
    Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The decor includes an old stoplight, a skull and antlers, and vintage beer signs.
    Kate Siber, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Want to show the person at the stoplight next to you what your vanity plate says?
    Austin Irwin and Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Martella claimed the driver yelled at them at a stoplight.
    Caleb Parke, Fox News, 19 May 2018
  • Quintana said the man followed her on the Beltway and got off the same exit to catch up to her at the next stoplight.
    Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2020
  • One day, the family was in their car at a stoplight when one son read the words on a sign for a restaurant.
    Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
  • At a stoplight, a police truck pulls up alongside with a dead man under a stray mat in the back.
    Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
  • There is no Starbucks; Main Street has but one stoplight.
    Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
  • On the way, Williams saw his mother, Latonya Crowley, in a car at a stoplight on her way out of town for the weekend.
    Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • The guy was catcalling my daughter from a car that was stopped at a stoplight.
    Maria Ricapito, Marie Claire, 20 May 2021
  • Allwood turned off his lights and sirens and stopped at the stoplight at 23rd Street and Topping Avenue.
    Ian Cummings, kansascity, 12 June 2018
  • Then, there’s a new stoplight or a new crosswalk, but only then.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Rayjon Robinson, who lives off the intersection, called for stoplights to be added to the area.
    Max Londberg, kansascity, 1 May 2018
  • As seen from a car waiting at a stoplight, both men appear to be trying to rip the gun away from the other.
    Henri Hollis, ajc, 14 June 2021
  • There were no stoplights, few residents and cows grazed in open fields.
    Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Williamsport is a one-stoplight village along Deer Creek on the south end of Pickaway County.
    Dan Gearino, ABC News, 29 July 2022
  • There was no engine roar or rumble in the floor that rattled at stoplights – just a slight, low hum.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2024
  • Carter is accused of running a red stoplight, causing the crash.
    Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2020
  • When the driver stopped at a stoplight, a detective ran the car’s plate number.
    Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • With that, an impressive rushing sound came up from the forge, and the center of the coal mound reddened like a stoplight.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Not many drivers will lock their doors when White men approach at a stoplight.
    John Blake, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Some climbed on fences or stoplights or even the roof of a luxury hotel to get a better view.
    Angela Charlton, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • From any of the trailheads that access the wilderness, the nearest town with a stoplight, Yreka, is more than 2 hours away.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • Nearly two dozen protested near on Main Street on June 5, just west of the city’s only stoplight.
    jsonline.com, 27 June 2020
  • There are two yellow lights on top of the Christmas tree, the demonic stoplight that sends off the racers.
    Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There is a stoplight at the Whitestown Road intersection.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
  • With every stoplight, the panic in my chest grows heavier and heavier.
    Kat Lazo, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2024

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