Examples of traffic light in a Sentence
Take a left at the traffic light.
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The city of Gary also received $2 million from NIPSCO for streetlight replacement, which the city plans to use for traffic light repair.
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Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Mathis said cars pick up speed because for three blocks there are no traffic lights or stop signs.
—Joe Holden, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Outside, the street was now clogged with driverless cars, their high beams on, in confusion, in paralysis, lacking any traffic lights to tell them what to do.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
The town lost its one traffic light when Okeechobee Road was widened in the late 1970s.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
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Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Mathis said cars pick up speed because for three blocks there are no traffic lights or stop signs.
—Joe Holden, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Outside, the street was now clogged with driverless cars, their high beams on, in confusion, in paralysis, lacking any traffic lights to tell them what to do.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
The town lost its one traffic light when Okeechobee Road was widened in the late 1970s.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Traffic light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20light. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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