How to Use stop sign in a Sentence

stop sign

noun
  • The traffic is backed up all the way to that stop sign.
    Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That night, the small road barricade was tipped over on its side and there was no stop sign at all.
    David Garrick, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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
  • This included a car running a red light, a scooter running a red light, and a car running a stop sign.
    ArsTechnica, 27 Mar. 2025
  • What if someone hits a different object, like a stop sign?
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2025
  • No signal: Treat non-functioning traffic lights like a four-way stop sign.
    Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023

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