How to Use traffic circle in a Sentence

traffic circle

noun
  • And a good number of folks just didn’t like the idea of a traffic circle.
    — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
  • West said his group would like to see the traffic circle become a place of healing.
    — Bill Atkinson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Roads and traffic circles had been built among the rolling hills, but the zone was mostly wide, open spaces.
    — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Planes first need to fly low over a busy traffic circle atop a hill with roads that slope down toward both sides of the runway.
    — Johanna Read, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In a traffic circle, no one has the right of way except someone who’s already in the circle.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
  • In a traffic circle, no one has the right of way except someone who’s already in the circle.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • It should be turned into a roundabout (also known as a traffic circle or rotary).
    — Time, 17 July 2023
  • That was the last time Tim stood in the traffic circle, and the beginning of their friendship.
    — Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • One of the features of the project will be installing a traffic circle at Janesville Road.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
  • After navigating through a traffic circle, a road on the right leads to the parking booths and the lot.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025
  • But perhaps no town has gone round and round—and round and round—with as much verve as this community has over a traffic circle.
    — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The commission could decide on a new name for the traffic circle, however, to give it a new moniker.
    — Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • After a tense standoff that lasted more than an hour, heavy clashes broke out near a traffic circle near the police lines.
    — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • As of Monday afternoon, there were no detours in place for the traffic circle.
    — Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And stop the stupid traffic circles, white curb extenders and converting streets to bikeways.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • The café at 44 Plaza Square was one of two Starbucks at the traffic circle.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Sepia desert and warehouses ticked by as the taxi approached a traffic circle about 20 miles from the power plant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Schoolteachers were trying to gather for a protest in a traffic circle near the prime minister’s house.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
  • To the southwest of the traffic circle, less than half a mile away from the hospital, spreads an imposing walled compound.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The site is currently a grassy traffic circle at the foot of Memorial Bridge.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But one thing Logan Square residents agree on is that the layout of the traffic circle is a pain in the neck.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The protest then moved from the Internet to the traffic circles that dot the French countryside.
    — Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The demonstrators retreated to the traffic circle, and the protest began breaking up.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Bear right at the small traffic circle and look for the parking area on the left just past Hunting Lodge Apartments.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • The father of two girls from Ras al-Ayn joined a line of reinforcements at a nearby traffic circle.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • After exiting a traffic circle, the road tilted upward at a steady 5 percent grade.
    — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Visitors can walk right up to the traffic circle at the southwest corner of Central Park.
    — Kayla Keegan, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But the city of Richmond asked the state to remove the pedestal, as well, in preparation for deeding the traffic circle around it back to the city.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • At least one driver was clocked at a traffic circle coming into town going 113 mph in a 40 mph zone.
    — Tanya Babbar, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The seal made its way toward the entrance of a nearby hotel before it was contained in the traffic circle, Cavanagh said.
    — Pooja Salhorta and Kelly McCleary, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022

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