How to Use stop sign in a Sentence

stop sign

noun
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  • Two-run single when Smith ran through a stop sign to score the tying run.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • No signal: Treat non-functioning traffic lights like a four-way stop sign.
    — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023
  • The chase comes to a head when the Mercedes becomes boxed in at a four-way stop sign with two other cars attempting to cross the intersection.
    — Rachel Seo, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What’s the penalty for running a stop sign in California?
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Learning from the last inning, every Venezuela fan sitting around me put up their hands to give the runner rounding third the stop sign, so he wouldn’t get thrown out at home.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Witnesses told police that Ortiz sped through the stop sign at a high rate of speed, according to Fox 4 Dallas.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The piece -- a red stop sign with three military drones on it -- debuted at the corner of Commercial Way on Friday.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The 43-year-old UAB clinical lab assistant was at a stop sign in Moody when, seemingly out of nowhere, the woman in the car in front of her showed up at her window.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • At the bottom is busy Reseda Boulevard, with just a stop sign between the corner of Hermano Drive and the dangerous cross-traffic.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Another component of the proposal would allow cyclists to treat a red light more like a stop sign.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • There is a stop sign and a railroad crossing warning sign at the intersection, but no lights or barrier arms, Pavlik said.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Two years after her 5-year-old daughter Allie was killed by a driver who ran a stop sign, Jessica Hart wants to know why little has changed.
    — Stephen Stock, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The railroad crossing area is not a very well-traveled, and it is marked with a stop sign encouraging people to stop and look both ways, Chronister said.
    — Cristian Santana, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • And in December, two people were arrested after a piece of Banksy’s work — a London stop sign adorned with what appeared to be drones — went missing.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in March.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • At first, the fronts pulled us away from a stop sign, but at the slightest steering input, the little car simply leapt across the road then snapped back toward centerline when the rears quickly fell back into line.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars — namely, bigger SUVs and trucks — are more likely to kill a 7-year-old.
    — Curbed, 23 June 2023
  • Dash-cam footage captured by the Tesla and obtained exclusively by The Post shows the car blowing through a stop sign, a blinking light and five yellow signs warning that the road ends and drivers must turn left or right.
    — Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Among the problems the faulty software could cause were causing a car to drive straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane, fail to fully stop at a stop sign, and veer into on-coming traffic.
    — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Now, a few streets away from his winery, government air monitors hang under a stop sign and a yellow sign warning drivers that children are at play.
    — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023

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