How to Use traffic circle in a Sentence

traffic circle

noun
  • The swooping form stands in the heart of a traffic circle.
    Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • One of the features of the project will be installing a traffic circle at Janesville Road.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
  • That was the last time Tim stood in the traffic circle, and the beginning of their friendship.
    Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • West said his group would like to see the traffic circle become a place of healing.
    Bill Atkinson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Roads and traffic circles had been built among the rolling hills, but the zone was mostly wide, open spaces.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Bear right at the small traffic circle and look for the parking area on the left just past Hunting Lodge Apartments.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • But one thing Logan Square residents agree on is that the layout of the traffic circle is a pain in the neck.
    John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But the city of Richmond asked the state to remove the pedestal, as well, in preparation for deeding the traffic circle around it back to the city.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • At Rond Point de la Palmeraie, the main traffic circle at the entrance to the city, hundreds of people were sleeping on the sidewalks and grass along the road.
    NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Sepia desert and warehouses ticked by as the taxi approached a traffic circle about 20 miles from the power plant.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The commission could decide on a new name for the traffic circle, however, to give it a new moniker.
    Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • To the southwest of the traffic circle, less than half a mile away from the hospital, spreads an imposing walled compound.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But perhaps no town has gone round and round—and round and round—with as much verve as this community has over a traffic circle.
    Scott Calvert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The wide traffic circle borders a Catholic parish hall that serves as the polling place for four precincts of Ward 20, which reliably delivers the highest turnout in the city.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • As of Monday afternoon, there were no detours in place for the traffic circle.
    Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The father of two girls from Ras al-Ayn joined a line of reinforcements at a nearby traffic circle.
    Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Police cleared the vast traffic circle around the monument.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The ministry announced plans to move the sandstone, ram-head sphinxes from behind the temple to the busy traffic circle in Egypt’s capital at the end of 2019.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2020
  • The protesters climbed on top of a rock foundation in the middle of a traffic circle where there was a flagpole, trying to raise the red, green and black Afghan flag.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The protesters climbed on top of a rock foundation in the middle of a traffic circle where there was a flagpole, trying to raise the red-green-and-black Afghan flag.
    Marcus Yam, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2021
  • As the time to march neared, Tijuana police closed the roads around the traffic circle that surrounded the monument, and women filled the street.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • If the main event is too much, there’s also the 30-mile Roundabout Route, focused on traffic circles, and the more leisurely Triangle Route.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Still, the treasured monument survived and again serves Rome—as a traffic circle.
    National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • At the Route 70 and Union Avenue traffic circle in Lakehurst, ash was raining down and conditions were smoky.
    Amanda Oglesby, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • After crossing the traffic circle, Mr. Peck made his way into Prospect Park.
    Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The seal made its way toward the entrance of a nearby hotel before it was contained in the traffic circle, Cavanagh said.
    Pooja Salhorta and Kelly McCleary, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The demonstrators retreated to the traffic circle, and the protest began breaking up.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • After a tense standoff that lasted more than an hour, heavy clashes broke out near a traffic circle near the police lines.
    Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • It should be turned into a roundabout (also known as a traffic circle or rotary).
    Time, 17 July 2023
  • The cars drove up one by one on a December afternoon, around the traffic circle in front of a ballpark in Erie, Pa., a scene that was captured by local news.
    Samantha Pell Washington Post, Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021

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