How to Use traffic court in a Sentence

traffic court

noun
  • She has to be in traffic court this morning.
  • In a perfect world, there would be no need for traffic court.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • Those charges still are pending in traffic court, records show.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2021
  • Does that go for traffic court judges, small claims judges, petty-theft judges?
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Need to double-check when you’re supposed to go to traffic court?
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
  • He's had to appeal his ticket at traffic court.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • This specific statute is not one that comes up often by itself in traffic court.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Schooling was present Monday morning for a traffic court video call.
    — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The main Vista courthouse — not including the traffic court annex — is made up of two sides.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Most mornings hundreds of people go to the courthouse for misdemeanor and traffic court.
    — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
  • Even outside of his job and his chutzpah in traffic court, Kriv’s history is notable.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 3 June 2023
  • The only recourse for offenders is to appeal their tickets at traffic court.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • During a traffic court session in Ferguson in mid-July, the line stretched out the door.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • He was then assigned to traffic court, as opposed to handling high-level criminal matters.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Similar scams from earlier this year sought money to pay traffic court fees or fines for missing jury duty.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Deputies often make arrests in traffic court, Navis said, but usually on behalf of other counties.
    — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Bottone planned to fight the ticket during a July 20 traffic court hearing, but it was postponed.
    — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • In other cases, officers were encouraged not to show up to testify at traffic court, or to feign amnesia on the stand.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2021
  • In Ferguson, the dreary routine of traffic court played out over two and a half hours — 90 minutes longer than was scheduled.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The court is now on the hunt to hire more hearing officers to preside over more than 6,000 civil traffic court cases a year.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • Pasos said an important question is whether an offense would be handled by the traffic court like a ticket or by the city attorney’s office.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Those things don’t necessarily have to be off-the-charts ostentatious or seemingly designed to land you in traffic court.
    — Patrick George, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Even without a score for traffic court cases, Hillsboro earned the top score for its prodigious ticketing and the money collected.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The move marks the first time that all courts in the Marion County system, from criminal courts to traffic court, will be housed in the same building.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The courthouse itself will become even more of a judicial complex with more courtrooms, a traffic court, and more offices for district attorneys.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • If neither the excuse nor the request for a warning is effective, a motorist can always contest the violation in traffic court.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Barker was also served with a Livingston County warrant for failing to appear in traffic court on an undisclosed charge, police said.
    — Daily Southtown Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • More than 40 states allow the suspension of driver’s licenses for people with unpaid criminal or traffic court debt.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • One parent called me in a panic when her 20 year-old son refused to answer a summons to a local traffic court, resulting from three unpaid speeding tickets.
    — Mark McConville, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The heroin was there in her purse as investigators questioned the 26-year-old about financial discrepancies in her work as a deputy clerk at night traffic court.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 Oct. 2017

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