stoplight
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At a stoplight, if there is a car ahead of me that starts to move, and I don’t, my car beeps twice and signals me on the display.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
The annual parade and festival, which is in its fifth year, is held in La Center, a southwest Washington town of 4,300 that doesn’t have a stoplight.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025
A driver slammed into the back of my car while I was at a stoplight during rush hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
The shadows of trees in a car’s headlights; a stoplight swaying softly in the wind while it changes color; the sensation that something peculiar will inevitably appear the longer a car stays in motion.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
The stoplight creaked and swung in the slight breeze.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
The bridge has only four lanes and feeds into a congested part of Windsor where stoplights cause frequent bottlenecks of trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Here, too, the MTA should insist that local jurisdictions provide signal priority at stoplights and dedicated emergency lanes for buses, EMS, police, and the fire department.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024
“They’re allowing caravans of locals and vendors with no weigh limit, which tells us that the northbound lane is stable. We’re hoping they’re going to get stoplights up and one-way traffic open very soon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
They build their golden webs between powerlines, on top of stoplights and even above the pumps at local gas stations -- none of which are particularly peaceful spots.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
They pulled off the Thruway and onto a four-lane road lined with low buildings, hung over with stoplights, bleached white by the heat.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
