How to Use stop sign in a Sentence

stop sign

noun

• At the stop sign between them, even the road’s name changes.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
• Ebel held up a stop sign on the play but Pages ran through it.
  — Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 12 June 2024
• The suit says that even the lower temporary stop sign was not in place at the time of the crash.
  — David Garrick, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
• Before the collision, the teen ran a stop sign about 100 yards away from the booth.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
• The sight of a stop sign feels to them like barbed wire on the skin, and a glimpse of certain roses sounds like bells.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• At a stop sign, the vocals filter out and the music hums with a low bass drone.
  — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
• Two-run single when Smith ran through a stop sign to score the tying run.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• There is not a single stop sign, let alone traffic light.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• At one point, FSD ignored a stop sign and Gerber had to slam the brakes to avoid a collision.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Police officials told The Times last week that the singer failed to stop at a stop sign and failed to remain in his lane.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• Anna Holz, 18, and Alex Peckey, 16, were at a stop sign just feet from the garage entrance when the top floor fell in front of their eyes.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
• The tanker truck was traveling northbound and drove through the stop sign without yielding to the train, Kessler said.
  — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Water appears to be feet deep, reaching more than halfway up a stop sign pole and the trunks of trees.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
• The juvenile was stopped for running a stop sign in WaKeeney, Iowa, at 11:25 p.m.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
• He has been charged with a hit and run, failure to stop at a stop sign, and driving under the influence.
  — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 5 Dec. 2024
• Armstrong, whose name McCloud did not know at the time, was sat a stop sign, and McCloud pulled up behind her.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• Timberlake failed to stop at a stop sign and struggled to stay in his lane, police said in a June statement.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• Where the schizophrenic tries to create a new avenue for thought or movement, the police are there to put up a stop sign.
  — Marco Roth, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• During a 27-second pursuit, Canales ran a stop sign, crossed over a roadway and crashed through a fence and into a house.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• Jenner had run a stop sign, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Moments later, the car was at a stop sign as a fire engine approached with flashing lights.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Drivers can use the phone when their car is fully stopped, such as at a red light or stop sign or maybe gridlocked in traffic.
  — Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• From a side road, a truck driver begins to cross U.S. 441, slowing but failing to fully stop at a stop sign.
  — Irfan Uraizee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The singer, 43, was arrested in June after police stopped him for weaving out of his lane and failing to obey a stop sign.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• Just because this person is pan-handling at the stop sign doesn’t tell me anything about the life story of that person.
  — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• No signal: Treat non-functioning traffic lights like a four-way stop sign.
  — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023
• The chase comes to a head when the Mercedes becomes boxed in at a four-way stop sign with two other cars attempting to cross the intersection.
  — Rachel Seo, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• What’s the penalty for running a stop sign in California?
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2024
• Timberlake, 43, was charged with DWI after police stopped him for weaving out of his lane and failing to obey a stop sign.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• Learning from the last inning, every Venezuela fan sitting around me put up their hands to give the runner rounding third the stop sign, so he wouldn’t get thrown out at home.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024