stoplight

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

At a stoplight, my gaze will magnetically travel north to the Santa Monica Mountains blanketed in a golden charred brown, and I travel back to hiking those trails, surrounded by sage, lavender and flitting bluebirds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 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

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 at Grand flashed green and he pushed harder, spun his legs faster, enjoyed the burning sensation in his thighs.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro