How to Use traffic signal in a Sentence

traffic signal

noun

• And from the top of the traffic signals and the walls came a wave of sound, a war cry.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• The car failed to follow a curve in the road and drove off the road, striking a tree and a traffic signal, police said.
  — Clare Proctor, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2021
• Flowers were piled up at the traffic signal at Canal Street and Kings Road.
  — Brittany Shammas, Cate Cadell and Maham Javaid, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Some of it was used it to pay for traffic signal upgrades.
  — Ariana Giorgi, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• The traffic signal at Peachtree Road at Peachtree Hills has not been installed since the repaving that seemed two years ago.
  — John Thompson, ajc, 21 Sep. 2019
• What irks them the most is that the traffic signal turned red for merely 20 seconds.
  — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2020
• They are used to change lights from red to green and improve the timing of traffic signals along a street, Stephens wrote in an email.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
• The boyfriend was stopped at a traffic signal waiting to turn onto Pearl Road.
  — cleveland, 16 July 2021
• May 26, an officer walked up to a car that did not move when the traffic signal at which the car was stopped turned green.
  — cleveland, 2 June 2022
• Two new traffic signals would be installed where Verdugo and Olive meet at the east and west ends.
  — Anthony Clark Carpio, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
• The traffic signal is part of a broader plan to improve traffic flow in the busy Riverdale shopping area, the city said.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 18 Apr. 2021
• If the traffic signal is out, please treat the intersection as one with a stop sign.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2021
• The driver of one of the cars reportedly struck the other in the rear when the other car slowed for a traffic signal.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland.com, 26 July 2019
• One is on Pima just north of the traffic signal and one is a few yards east on Dynamite.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• His night of fun has been ruined by a dude who can’t read a swaying traffic signal.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
• The service, free to the city, is available at every traffic signal.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• As part of these changes, a new traffic signal will be installed at Skelton Street.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 14 Nov. 2022
• There is no Uber or Lyft without our traffic signals, our roads.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2018
• The vehicle had front end damage and a traffic signal light was hanging from the car.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
• The initial version of the stoplight feature would slow down whether a traffic signal was red or green.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2020
• In Cabot, many of the traffic signals across the city were damaged by the storm, according to Facebook posts by the city Sunday and Monday.
  — Ashley Savage, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2023
• Since 2016, both street lights and traffic signals have been metered, just like your house, Eissey said.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• When a traffic signal or stop sign is detected on the road, Super Cruise will alert the driver to take over control of the wheel.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• In 2015, Davis launched a change.org petition to have the city add a traffic signal at the intersection.
  — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The car was stopping for a traffic signal at Stewart Lane, police said.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• Police said Gilmore was found in a vehicle stopped in a travel lane and at a traffic signal.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• Storm sewers, street lights and new traffic signals have also been added.
  — Tyler Johnson, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
• The man was also cited for not obeying a traffic signal.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2021
• The harsh winds ripped traffic signal lights off of their support poles, blew down a lamp post in the Scotts Valley Target parking lot and knocked over electrical power poles, cutting off power and snarling traffic throughout the afternoon.
  — Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 14 Dec. 2024
• The City of Malibu warned residents to prepare for potential wildfires, power outages, hazardous roads and malfunctioning traffic signals.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Feb 2025