How to Use hazard lights in a Sentence

hazard lights

plural noun

• The vehicle will brake, come to a full stop in its current lane, turn on the hazard lights and bring itself to a standstill.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• Drivers fled, leaving their hazard lights blinking in the dust and darkness.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Police released the traffic camera footage of Russell pulling over in her red Mercedes to the shoulder with her hazard lights on.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Ultimately, the system will stop the car in its lane, turn on hazard lights, and summon help via the OnStar phone connection.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
• Posts to social media showed the cars jammed up, their hazard lights flashing, blocking traffic for 15 minutes.
  — Yiwen Lu, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• The hazard lights on a shattered Hamas pickup truck were still blinking as the sounds of heavy machine gun fire and frequent explosions echoed nearby.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Troopers said that a vehicle with a flat tire came to a stop in the right lane of the highway and another vehicle behind it stopped and the driver activated hazard lights.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Footage from Thursday published by AL.com appears to show Russell’s car driving slowly on the shoulder of the interstate, with hazard lights on, before coming to a stop.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• On a recent Friday evening, a driverless car pulled up alongside an outdoor dining shed in the Mission district of San Francisco, put on its hazard lights, and waited.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 July 2023
• Those millions of vehicles will get an over the air software update to make their hazard lights more effective and receive digital alerts of hazards ahead.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2023
• People walked their dogs wearing masks and sunglasses while 18-wheelers followed by trucks flashing hazard lights rumbled past.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• On another occasion, a power outage took out a set of traffic lights, and Michael had to steer around a puzzled driverless car stopped in the intersection, hazard lights flashing.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• The driver of the truck, who had stopped while authorities investigated another collision ahead of him, had switched on the truck’s hazard lights, according to CHP.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Videos on social media show the robotaxis stopped with their hazard lights flashing, blocking a road and intersection preventing traffic from navigating around them.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024