How to Use stoplight in a Sentence

stoplight

noun

• Cars are parked along the street next to the sidewalk, and in the next lane, four cars wait at a stoplight.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
• With its cool look and flashy two-tone color schemes, folks will take gawk at the RAV4 Prime at the stoplight.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• Don’t try to get moving in a hurry and take time to slow down for a stoplight.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
• James painted her a little stoplight and the rest of the men are slacking!!
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• The decor includes an old stoplight, a skull and antlers, and vintage beer signs.
  — Kate Siber, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• Want to show the person at the stoplight next to you what your vanity plate says?
  — Austin Irwin and Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2021
• Martella claimed the driver yelled at them at a stoplight.
  — Caleb Parke, Fox News, 19 May 2018
• Quintana said the man followed her on the Beltway and got off the same exit to catch up to her at the next stoplight.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2020
• One day, the family was in their car at a stoplight when one son read the words on a sign for a restaurant.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
• At a stoplight, a police truck pulls up alongside with a dead man under a stray mat in the back.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• There is no Starbucks; Main Street has but one stoplight.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
• On the way, Williams saw his mother, Latonya Crowley, in a car at a stoplight on her way out of town for the weekend.
  — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The guy was catcalling my daughter from a car that was stopped at a stoplight.
  — Maria Ricapito, Marie Claire, 20 May 2021
• Allwood turned off his lights and sirens and stopped at the stoplight at 23rd Street and Topping Avenue.
  — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 12 June 2018
• Then, there’s a new stoplight or a new crosswalk, but only then.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
• Rayjon Robinson, who lives off the intersection, called for stoplights to be added to the area.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 1 May 2018
• As seen from a car waiting at a stoplight, both men appear to be trying to rip the gun away from the other.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 14 June 2021
• There were no stoplights, few residents and cows grazed in open fields.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2018
• Williamsport is a one-stoplight village along Deer Creek on the south end of Pickaway County.
  — Dan Gearino, ABC News, 29 July 2022
• There was no engine roar or rumble in the floor that rattled at stoplights – just a slight, low hum.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2024
• Carter is accused of running a red stoplight, causing the crash.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2020
• When the driver stopped at a stoplight, a detective ran the car’s plate number.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• With that, an impressive rushing sound came up from the forge, and the center of the coal mound reddened like a stoplight.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Not many drivers will lock their doors when White men approach at a stoplight.
  — John Blake, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
• Some climbed on fences or stoplights or even the roof of a luxury hotel to get a better view.
  — Angela Charlton, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• From any of the trailheads that access the wilderness, the nearest town with a stoplight, Yreka, is more than 2 hours away.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
• Nearly two dozen protested near on Main Street on June 5, just west of the city’s only stoplight.
  — jsonline.com, 27 June 2020
• There are two yellow lights on top of the Christmas tree, the demonic stoplight that sends off the racers.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• Texas traffic is in disarray after Hurricane Beryl cut power to thousands of the state's stoplights.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• In South Boston, roughly 15 minutes from the city’s center, runners enjoy a two-mile loop along the waterfront that’s uninterrupted by stoplights, with the option to extend the run along the beachfront.
  — Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024