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US
/ˈstɑˌpɫaɪt/
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NOUN
- a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
- a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
How To Use stoplight In A Sentence
- In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- I hope the renovations don't eliminate one of NYC's last remaining "wheelie" stoplights from the 1920s... Central Park Police Station to Be Made Stable
- The newspaper ended the article with the following words: "Just days earlier, Phillips was in her car at a stoplight when someone smashed the passenger-side window and grabbled her handbag. ANC Today
- It's a good habit to take the car out of gear while you're at a stoplight.
- At the stoplight ahead, a vendor of dubious naturalization was selling tiny U. S. flags for ten bucks a pop. THE KILL CLAUSE
- But on the freeway there are neither stoplights, yield signs, nor crosswalks at which to pause, only furious and never-ceasing movement.
- Mara slowed at a stoplight and switched on the right blinker.
- You'll find Block Drugs on 2nd Avenue and East 6th, across from the old Fillmore East (Village mosaicist Jim Power has seen to it that you can't miss that spot with an installation on the stoplight post commemorating the location). Kevin Walsh: Direct and to the Point
- But many of the cars on the roads are barely drivable, and there are few working stoplights. Tamar Abrams: Abuja, Nigeria: Happy to Leave
- ATHENS Sometime Friday morning, a teenage sprinter from the newest nation in the Olympics, which has neither a television station nor a stoplight, will line up for the 100-meter dash. USATODAY.com - Small step at Olympics is giant leap for tiny island nation
