How to Use road rage in a Sentence

road rage

noun
Definition of road ragenext
Synonyms for road ragenext
  • The cause of the shooting was also road rage, the DOT said.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The truck driver was warned of the dangers of road rage.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 4 May 2022
  • No one has been charged in the alleged road rage incident or the crash.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The gun battle followed a road rage clash that led both Soliz and Rios to exit the highway in 2020.
    — Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The crash was sparked by a road rage incident between the two drivers.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2021
  • There would be less space for Gerda, our husky, but no more 45-minute car commutes and no more road rage.
    — Eugene Rabkin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • This month, 15-year-old Shamara Young was shot and killed in a road rage incident.
    — Ryce Stoughtenborough, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The record 90 road rage reports in June beat the previous high one month before.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • The chase was spurred by a road rage incident, according to Tavares.
    — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Just this month a woman was killed in Tolleson due to a road rage incident.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some drivers that get an anxious horn smacking are apt to go into a form of road rage.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Yet, most of us think of road rage as the colloquial term for any type of angry driving.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The two had been involved in a road rage incident in the parking lot and both claimed to have assaulted the other.
    — cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • In Massachusetts, a man was sentenced to life in prison for a racist road rage murder in 2021.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The shooting was suspected to be the result of a road rage incident.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The report said that road rage incidents are on the rise nationwide.
    — Abigail Celaya, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Both Hamilton’s shooting, and Thursday night’s shooting, are said to have stemmed from road rage.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Formal charges have been filed against a 29-year-old man in Thursday’s road rage shooting on I-65 in Vestavia Hills.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Deputies were called to a Love's Travel Stop for a report of shots fired during a road rage incident on March 3.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • And in a time when reports of road rage incidents have surged amid the pandemic, such a move may mean conflict.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
  • The group's road rage violence statistics date back to 2016.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Beef Two strangers collide after road rage upends both their lives.
    — Diane Garrett, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Beef followed two people in the wake of a road rage incident that ended up taking over both of their lives.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The behavior ranges from high speeds to incidents of road rage that led to guns fired at other drivers, at the extreme.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill road rage incident, though those have become problematic, to say the least, in this country.
    — USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • If you are involved in a road rage incident or see one, please call 911 as soon as possible.
    — Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Don’t engage with a driver who is suffering from road rage.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Police said the shooting stemmed from a road rage incident, but did not elaborate on what led to the shooting.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Hamama served a couple of years in prison after being found guilty of threatening someone with a gun during a road rage incident in 1988.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2024
  • The woman told police on Sunday that the suspect was her son, Jorge Ramirez, after initially saying the shooting was a road rage incident.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024

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