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.

Beckstrom grew up in a tiny community of homes cradled in the Appalachian Mountains on a ridge above a town of roughly 700 people that has the only stoplight in a county of 8,000 people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 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

You never know who is waiting for you at the next stoplight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Maybe it will be easier to accept, to pretend to use my phone anytime I’m waiting at a stoplight, physically unable to run away from peering eyes until the light flashes green.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2024

"You okay?" he says at the third stoplight, all soft.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon