How to Use crossroad in a Sentence

crossroad

noun

• Traffic was stopped at the crossroad.
• We turned onto a crossroad.
• The Swahili coast of East Africa is home to a crossroads culture.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• But for Stephenson, this is a crossroad moment in his career.
  — Clifton Brown, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2018
• The group stage is the crossroads of cultures, a mixture of multitudes filled with happiness and hope.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• Now, Intel — like the PC industry — is at a crossroads.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• The team, like the nation, is a global crossroads, a place shaped by hundreds of years of colonial history and migration.
  — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 14 July 2018
• At a crossroads outside Royal Center, the bandits opened fire on the police and a chase began.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2018
• Looking back, Norfolk State may've been Frank Haith's crossroads moment.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 10 July 2018
• The party stands now at an ideological crossroads ahead of this November’s midterm elections.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 29 June 2018
• New Jersey has been the crossroads of the American economy for 150 years.
  — Gerard Gayou, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• Campbell is at a crossroads in its 150-year history, as consumers have turned away from its namesake canned soups and the company’s pivot to fresher foods hasn’t panned out.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• Ivy Ross feels at home at the crossroads of art and design.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
• Play hard and have fun.’’ High school marks the crossroads of this dilemma.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
• Campbell said the deputies were at a crossroads at this point.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 July 2024
• In the autumn of 2022, Nilüfer Yanya found herself at a crossroads.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024
• That crossroad came for Zwack two years ago as a sophomore at Xavier.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 16 July 2021
• The library has the potential to be the crossroads the neighborhood lacks.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
• Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads.
  — Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Easy: fans see the first (of many) rash deals to trade one life for another, thanks to a crossroads demon.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 31 July 2019
• At a crossroads, the company went all-in on a product that at the time was just a small part of its business.
  — jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• At the crossroad of the not-so-distant past and the immediate present lies a question.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Then slam on the brakes and make a 16-point turn right there rather than, say, continuing to the next side street or crossroad.
  — Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2022
• Rafah is an old crossroads, known to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• The beloved institution is at a crossroads in more ways than one.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• The crossroads had long been a stop where truckers filled their fuel tanks and their bellies.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• At each crossroad, the machine turned right by default.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
• The show returns as the body positivity movement — a belief system of self-acceptance regardless of body type — is at a crossroads.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024