How to Use traffic island in a Sentence

traffic island

noun

• There is a traffic island between the northbound lanes and the station.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The scores of police roadblocks that had littered the streets of Harare were gone; the car-stopping spikes lay piled on traffic islands like the teeth of an enormous fish.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
• The city later took down a third Columbus statue from a traffic island in South Chicago.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• The security camera video shows Alyssa alone on the traffic island at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 20 May 2021
• The new plan includes traffic islands or medians that will prevent drivers from turning left at the Pearl entrance and exit.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
• However, gathering at the traffic island is not a safe solution for you.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• And every alley, sidewalk and traffic island in between.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020
• According to the arrest report and a surveillance camera video released by detectives, the girl is seen sitting on the traffic island with her backpack on the ground near her when a white SUV passes by.
  — al, 21 May 2021
• The design changed the civic space from a grid of four cement traffic islands to a cohesive park bisected by a narrower Superior Avenue.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
• Police say officers were called Friday night after receiving reports of a naked man standing on a traffic island.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2018
• The monument, now in a traffic island, would be illuminated at night in a pedestrian plaza, surrounded by outdoor seating, in front of the Menger Hotel and in direct line of sight of the iconic Alamo church facade.
  — Scott Huddleston |, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• Outside on Main Street, lined with the charming old brick buildings of Western Massachusetts, a man capers barefoot on a traffic island, holding a sign that exhorts passersby to go vegan and stop using plastic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Flowerscape started in 1982 as a beautification program to landscape and plant gardens at every traffic island, expressway ramp and city corner in Akron.
  — Brittany Nader, cleveland.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The project, which began July 1 and is scheduled to be completed in October, will remove the existing traffic island, relocate utility poles, improve drainage, and make other improvements, according to the statement.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024