How to Use cloverleaf in a Sentence

cloverleaf

noun

• How precious are these cloverleaf rolls?
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• To get the cloverleaf shape, roll three small balls of dough and press them into a muffin tin.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• Barrel racers did their charge-and-twirl ballet through the oil drum cloverleaf.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 11 July 2019
• So the path forward is as clear as a cloverleaf exchange, at rush hour, during an earthquake.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
• The sanctuary area was something of a maritime highway cloverleaf.
  — John Flesher, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• The site sits just east of a clunky cloverleaf interchange that's an apt relic of mid-20th century sprawl.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 12 Sep. 2025
• The cloverleaf shape disrupts the vortex that forms in the blender to promote more comprehensive mixing.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2015
• Some of the shell ridges stretched to 13 feet tall, and were clustered to form cloverleaf-like compounds of between six and 12 rings.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Oct. 2019
• Now the community around the Cobb cloverleaf is in the spotlight, thanks to the Braves’ title run.
  — Tim Tucker, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
• Ride horses, join a cattle drive or learn barrel racing (taking a horse and trying to make a cloverleaf pattern around barrels).
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The new version of the park is tucked inside the concrete outline of a cloverleaf, a nod to the leprechaun colony that lives there, according to legend.
  — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
• When merging onto the freeway from a cloverleaf, the Escalade cut power at a very mellow 38 mph.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2020
• Spending near-six-figure money shouldn’t require this much compromise when the highway journey ends with a tight cloverleaf exit ramp.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
• The tricky cloverleaf includes a two-lane merge to travel north on 23 (pictured above), with cars coming from 23 south and crossing lanes.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 30 Apr. 2021
• The developers released architectural plans of a cloverleaf-style complex with three towers, a plaza and gardens on the roof.
  — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016
• Imagine entering an arena on horseback and navigating a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels at full speed.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Apr. 2017
• The project will replace the existing cloverleaf turnpike with a modern direct connect interchange.
  — Dallas News, 15 May 2020
• Southbound motorists will be detoured nearly 2 miles out of their way and through two cloverleaf turns before heading back under 495.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• Those images, thornier in intent and unwedded to a single place, become a kind of cloverleaf—of circumstances, of timelines and beliefs, of people.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 29 May 2020
• There, the Hussein loyalists had dug trenches leading into the cloverleaf from neighborhoods and bunkers on either side of the highway.
  — William Branigin, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• One round hit within the cloverleaf about 50 yards in front of the M88, slightly injuring two soldiers, and the artillery support was called off.
  — William Branigin, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Taking Ogden is too dangerous, because of the cloverleaf with multiple on and off ramps to and from I-294, Heinz said.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• But there are also high-quality touches, such as the white-and-green stitching—which brings the theme of the Quadrifoglio's cloverleaf badge inside the cabin—on the dash, doors, seats, and into the second row.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2020
• To avoid traffic jams, the avenues that connect each sector of the city were designed without intersections; instead, the intersections have cloverleaf interchanges.
  — Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026
• The interchange — with on and off ramps and a bridge over the highway — will be located a mile west of the interchange at Woodland Road and a mile east of the cloverleaf at K-7.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
• The woman was grabbed from behind and dragged into the cloverleaf section of Interstate 80 and Madison Avenue, where she was strangled and raped.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2025
• Denver Water didn’t comment when asked about any conversations with CDOT about impacts on planning for the cloverleaf area.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026
• The document also recommends revamping the looping cloverleaf road exchange around Federal and Colfax.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
• One of those projects is the Interstate 75 interchange at Fruitville Road in Bradenton, which will be transformed from a traditional cloverleaf configuration into a diverging diamond design.
  — Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
• But residents of the surrounding area have complained for years that the nearby cloverleaf interchange for Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard divides the community and creates unsafe conditions for pedestrians and drivers.
  — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 9 June 2026