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automobile traffic

n. cars coming and going [syn: car traffic]

Usage examples of "automobile traffic".

He managed brief returns to Israel, always finding the people more prosperous, construction more hectic, automobile traffic more frightening, and tourism still on the rise.

What he hadn't envisioned was the creaking of the door's rusty hinges, screeching like a buzz saw cutting through nails over the steady hum of the automobile traffic below, startling the old woman from her uneasy sleep.

That was a little hard to reconcile with the automobile traffic, of course.

But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings.

Vickie's commitment to reducing the automobile traffic in residential areas occasioned the grandest rhetorical flights I'd ever heard from her.

He heard more automobile traffic driving the wrong way on the street behind him, felt his injury burning along his thigh, tasted the unaccustomed sweetness of the air, but all he was aware of was the man in the beret and the huge block of concrete he handled.

Closed to automobile traffic, the park was the site of ancient bastions and abandoned cannon.

The trucks seemed to have their own lanes, separated from the automobile traffic by a raised divider.

Polish, Irish, Ukrainian, Greek, Italian, German, Hungarian-name some obscure Medieval village where the automobile traffic is forced to stand still for sheep, and you will find that there is some human link to Detroit.

The children who scamper there between the wheels of automobile traffic, the men and women who swarm over its grimy sidewalks, give it a degree of friendly warmth.