traffic signal
Example Sentences
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Officers responded to Broadway and Miller Street around 1:40 a.m. and found a vehicle had struck a traffic signal, the Santa Maria Police Department said in a news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Mohammad Umar, 50, has been sitting inside his tuk-tuk near a busy traffic signal since morning, waiting for passengers.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Officials warned that power outages and traffic signal failures are also possible, and additional closures are likely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
By 1930, Nelson wrote, all major American cities and many smaller ones had at least one electrical traffic signal.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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