stoplight

Example Sentences

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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

At a stoplight he looked at Reilly’s address in the morning newspaper folded and stored in the well between the bucket seats.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole