What is "stoplight"

Usage examples of "stoplight".

FDR Drive, which was a controlled-access expressway, the roadway here was dotted with stoplights and, at Fourteenth Street, it featured a jog that sent her misaligned Chevrolet into an alarming skid, resulting in a sparking kiss between sheet steel and concrete barriers.

At a stoplight, through some trees and off in the distance, I caught a brief glimpse of Rainier -- a smudge of white on the blue horizon.

Visualizing every cross street and stoplight between her car and San Francisco Municipal Hospital, Yuki floored the accelerator.

The idea that two heroin pushers in a white Cadillac convertible would be dragging up and down the Strip, abusing total strangers at stoplights, was prima facie absurd.

At every traffic light they were the first to take off and the Papuan never seemed to use his brakes, approaching the stoplights in gear and guessing the exact moment when the lights changed.

Two bikes would pull up at stoplights and give him the good news with their AK-47s.

The traffic slowed at a long set of stoplights so I had to bump up onto the curb and edge my way to the front of the line.

Buzz took side streets over to Hollywood and Vine, dawdling at stoplights.

Among the things he remembered with particular sharpness, once they had crossed into New England and the Talisman began to glow again, signalling the return of normal time - or perhaps the return of time itself to Jack Sawyer - were the faces of people peering into the back seat of the El Dorado (people in parking lots, a sailor and an ox-faced girl in a convertible at a stoplight in a sunny little town in Iowa, a skinny Ohio kid wearing Breaking Away-style bicycle gear) in order to see if maybe Mick Jagger or Frank Sinatra had decided to pay them a call.

At every stoplight his big arm tensed and the gun bit deep into her.

I talked about stoplights on Camino Real, line-ups at Fry's, rude telephone operators, traffic on the 101, the price of cheese singles at Costco.

They'd moved through the lumber mills on the outskirts of town and blown through the stoplight at the Eagle Point junction.

From Immokalee, they could take the dogleg road west again to Bonita Springs and then get on the Tamiami Trail again north of Naples and miss all the stoplights downtown.

At a stoplight, they were caught under the flickerings of a mercury lamp going bad.

East of Panama City, used car and mobile home lots with hand-painted signs, boxy fast-food joints, and staccato stoplights dissolved into pine forests that sporadically separated the pavement from a clear view of the Gulf.