How to Use traffic cone in a Sentence

traffic cone

noun

• We were supposed to place the traffic cone by the bend in the road where the truck was meant to stop.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• Doyle said he was hit in the face with a rock and a plastic traffic cone.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 8 May 2024
• The footage shows one teen chasing him across the street and striking him with the traffic cone.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• In the video, the suspects chased Lambert and repeatedly hit the man in the head with the traffic cone.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
• One of the men hit the car with a large orange traffic cone, putting a dent in the door, according to the report.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 June 2022
• One of the teens is captured hurling a traffic cone at the victim.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 July 2022
• Some threw traffic cones and others pounded the hood of an SUV that whisked him away.
  — Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020
• In one video, a teen does a viral dance with traffic cones fitted to his legs.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 12 July 2019
• In the video, the suspects chased Lambert and repeatedly hit him in the head with the traffic cone.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2022
• But when Coach Steve Kerr had his staff arrange a set of traffic cones on the court, Green took notice.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The front doors were locked, and orange traffic cones blocked the entrances into the parking lot.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• In the video, what appears to be a teenage boy and girl can be seen hurling a traffic cone at Lambert three times.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 July 2022
• Video from the scene shows traffic cones and warning signs posted around pools of tar that are covered with sand.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• An orange traffic cone had melted as if made of ice cream.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
• One of the activist groups, Safe Street Rebel, has even found a way to make the cars shut down by simply placing a traffic cone on their hood.
  — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Cassidy recalls seeing an adult bring an orange traffic cone to the den for the pups.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• There's this kind of very activist-y kind of group that was going around and putting one of those orange traffic cones on the hood of these cars.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• The city had previously placed traffic cones around the block with plans to move it before the business owner urged the court to stop the city.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
• The ominous message was taped to an 18-inch orange traffic cone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• But for a few days, at least, with traffic cones down and most Olympic checkpoints removed, Pyeongchang can take a breather as the eyes of the world shift somewhere else.
  — Ted Anthony, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The protesters threw traffic cones and other objects at the group.
  — NBC News, 5 Aug. 2019
• The sign had been previously damaged and had been affixed to the parking lot with the traffic cone.
  — cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• People would mess with the cars—putting traffic cones on top of the vehicles so the robo-taxis would pull over, or throwing rocks at the windshields.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Signs, tape and orange traffic cones remind them to keep their distance from the 39 people who work there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• From coral to traffic cone, find your foolproof guide to orange nail polish, ahead.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• The trucks carry traffic cones, push bumpers and other equipment.
  — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Once the mission is over, Bobbi will head home, get a nice treat and play with her favorite toy, a bright orange traffic cone.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
• The teens then followed the 72-year-old across the street before one of the male assailants attacked him from behind by striking him with a traffic cone.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 9 July 2022
• The song celebrates John Drummond, who stuck the base of a wire Christmas tree into the traffic cone sticking out of the pothole.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• My guess is that both sides are being funded by the deep state cabal that owns the traffic cone concession.
  — Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024