How to Use traffic in a Sentence

traffic

1 of 2 noun

• Traffic is backed up to the bridge.
• Let's leave early to avoid rush hour traffic.
• Airlines saw a decrease in passenger traffic this year.
• Barge traffic was halted because of flooding.
• As the truck passed by the couple, the load struck them, causing a traffic crash.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• There wasn’t much traffic, and the driver kept up a steady pace.
  — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Harden then lost control of his Equinox and the car traveled to the left across all lanes of traffic.
  — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
• Cochran had been closed during the search but that street has since been reopened to traffic.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 2 June 2023
• The cameras have been the city’s main method of traffic enforcement for years and can issue fines up to $500.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• The tourism surge has led to a housing crisis, a water shortage and a traffic mess.
  — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• There was no word on why police pulled Cure over or what prompted the traffic check.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 20 Oct. 2023
• The company wanted to boost traffic in the third and fourth quarters of the year, when its business tends to slow down.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Street takeovers are when people stop traffic to make way for vehicles to do burnouts and donuts on the road.
  — Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2024
• During Rock the Block, one lane east and one west will remain open to traffic on Mayfield Road.
  — cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
• If you’re headed to Charleston in the spring, just be prepared for crowds, traffic, lines, and hard-to-find parking.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2023
• Even without cars, there was plenty of traffic on the freeway.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The man’s death marks the 44th traffic fatality in Portland so far this year.
  — Bslovic, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• Two-wheeled traffic in Guangzhou in general seemed to present a challenge for the system.
  — Mark Andrews, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• The canal also closed at the beginning of March, causing a backup of traffic.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• The company said the vehicle stopped, but then pulled over to move out of traffic, dragging the woman 20 feet along the road.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• That's good news for fleets, for truck drivers, and for residents in areas with lots of truck traffic.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
• While there were already a mix of barriers installed between the bike and traffic lanes, there was still space for cars to park.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 27 Oct. 2023
• Once the traffic is shifted onto the new bridge, northbound drivers will make a slight left at Broadway and Fifth Street.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• Early morning on-time performance is all thanks to the thin air traffic.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2023
• An officer on a traffic stop in the area witnessed the horse trotting through the soccer field at Gardenway and Grange.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2023
• Toward her car, where traffic was already piled up, or away from that mayhem?
  — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The crash marked the ninth traffic fatality this year on San Jose streets — six of which have involved pedestrians.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• Leave plenty of distance between you and the vehicle in front of you to account for sudden stops or changes in the traffic pattern.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• An analysis of traffic patterns from that year suggests the worst of the traffic – on interstates and rural back roads alike – will kick off after the eclipse ends and everyone tries to leave all at once.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• The long delays are believed to be due in part to ongoing construction projects in Tijuana that have created traffic bottlenecks entering the city.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024

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traffic

2 of 2 verb

• David’s death, at the age of 37, shows the extremes of the cruelties trafficked women face.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• And yet, the world does not traffic in moral absolutes.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• Still, some who claimed they were trafficked on the site sought civil penalties.
  — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• There are many brokerage firms that traffic in fix-to-float bonds.
  — Marilyn Cohen, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• Court records state Fessler is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, a felony.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2023
• But the nighttime run on April 5 didn’t involve Keosavang, and the wildlife being trafficked was still very much alive.
  — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
• The Eiffel Tower is one of the most recognizable and well-trafficked monuments in the world.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2020
• Beyond telling politicians who traffic in racist attacks to go to the devil, how should Democrats deal with crime?
  — Paul Begala, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• The defense comes from a law meant to protect trafficking victims.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Or, foster kids who get trafficked will be used by the traffickers to traffic their friends.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2022
• Living in the shadows There are few ways out for trafficking victims like Chae-ran.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• In the end, in the very end, this ugly story is about one thing: simple hate, and how a Black man, of all people, should know better than to traffic it.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
• Many people in the region now long for the early 1990s, when just one family trafficked drugs through the region, and the state was largely at peace.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
• Basically, the process of trafficking a siskin may start with a trapper in a rural area.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• They’re often procured through straw men in states with lax gun laws and then trafficked illegally to the country.
  — Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• That theory focused on the false claim that a child trafficking ring was being run out of the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
• And with much of the drugs being trafficked in by Mexican drug cartels, the quality varies widely.
  — Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2020
• The length of time Mearan was allegedly able to traffic women without being caught shocks him.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2020
• According to Spencer, police have not found any evidence that Noel is dead or has been trafficked.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• In a district that has long been controlled or contested by the Taliban, the airbase sits amid a major drug and arms trafficking route.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• Unlike many sportswriters, who tend to traffic in the immediate (and obvious), Lewis takes the long view.
  — Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• In a third case, the Times reported, a source told U.S. agents that trafficking groups had videos of the president’s sons receiving drug money.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• Snacks will be available, and officers with the Pine Bluff Police Department will be on hand to help will traffic control.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• Harris is in the Mobile Metro Jail, charged with trafficking cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• The story of the missing girl turning up on the base drew public attention when the girl’s aunt posted a TikTok video alleging the girl had been trafficked.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• Combs also is charged with maintaining a drug house and with carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Meanwhile, kids are still being trafficked — on streets, in cheap hotels, on the internet, in our own neighborhoods.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The higher the drug weight, the more severe the penalties become — for example, an extra 25 years of prison time can be imposed for trafficking more than 80 kilograms.
  — Christopher Tang and Thomas Choi, Twin Cities, 13 Jan. 2024
• McAnuff’s production does not traffic in such subtleties.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into online criminality across the region, according to a United Nations report last year.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024