How to Use traffic light in a Sentence

traffic light

noun

• Take a left at the traffic light.
• From the lodge, the nearest traffic light is about a 100-mile drive.
  — Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
• At one point, the line was backed up to the traffic light, Surita said.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• At the base of a traffic light, Cheshire stopped to pick up a shiny silver one.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2020
• The light, which can be white or blue, is wired to light up when a traffic light is red.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
• Wind is gusting, so the traffic light sways, bounces and twists.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
• On the home page, click on the traffic light icon on the right, then click on traffic cameras.
  — Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2020
• At a standard left turn at a traffic light, the system freaked out and tried to go right.
  — Christopher Cox, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The next day, the man was stopped at a traffic light and checked the winning numbers on the AR Lottery + Club app.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• Barr stopped at a traffic light with the cruiser behind them.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• The color of the Mahomes 1.0 is bright green to represent a traffic light.
  — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Many traffic lights were knocked out, and trees toppled.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• At one traffic light, Brady was snapped caressing Shayk’s face as the two talked in the front seat of his black Rolls Royce.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Jeep was stopped at a traffic light which had turned green only moments before the crash.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 12 Dec. 2022
• No country has been moved off the red list since the traffic light system started.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2021
• The traffic light was installed less than a month ago as part of the state’s I-69 Finish Line project to grow the interstate.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2022
• That's a saying, that's a pedestrian, that's a traffic light, that's a road.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 18 June 2024
• The way pedestrians scurried along to make a traffic light.
  — Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Remember to treat a dead traffic light like an all-way stop.
  — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
• In the subway, on the street, at the traffic light, along the underpass, anywhere in America.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2022
• The impact caused the car and the motorcycle to hit two more vehicles stopped at the traffic light.
  — Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2022
• Cramer wants to install a revolving door on the corner, right near the traffic light at Cedar Springs and Carlisle.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2022
• While stopped at a traffic light, her son got out of their car to confront the other driver, the report states.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2022
• The advent of a traffic light at Piper Street was meant to stop pedestrians from darting across the road.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
• Until that gets done, trail users will be diverted to the traffic light at 46th Street.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
• And in both Bavaria and Hesse, all three parties of the traffic light coalition incurred losses.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
• The truckers also say a new traffic light is needed to make the new depot safer.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• As the bus attempted to clear the intersection, the traffic light changed to red.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2020
• Murray had been in the car ahead of him, stopped at the time at a traffic light, and failed to drive upon the light changing to green, the motorist told police.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Power cuts hit parts of the Greek capital and affected traffic lights at major central junctions.
  — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024