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Examples of traffic light in a Sentence
Take a left at the traffic light.
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Apple Maps, meanwhile, will tell me to pass the next traffic light and turn right at the one after it.
—Justin Pot, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
In a time before most local traffic lights, Malibu had more of a frontier feel.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Caltrans warned that winds could become strong enough to knock out traffic lights.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
According to a press release: Signal timing adjustments have been made at traffic lights at the Taylor Southgate Bridge, Second Street, Hopple Street at I-75 ramp, Liberty Street and Reading Road intersection, Columbia Parkway, and Bains Street and Riverside Drive intersection.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1912, in the meaning defined above
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“Traffic light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20light. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
traffic light
noun
: a visual signal (as a system of green, yellow, and red lights) for controlling traffic
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