How to Use road rage in a Sentence

road rage

noun
  • If only more cars could do this -– there would be no more road rage.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Too often when that bubble is burst, a case of road rage breaks out.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 27 July 2021
  • Officers have not ruled out road rage.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • No motive is known at this time, but police do not think these were acts of road rage.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 17 June 2021
  • Some believe the shooting might have been the result of road rage.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The best way to survive road rage is to keep it from happening in the first place.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • How did the road rage incident begin?
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The crash was sparked by a road rage incident between the two drivers.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And the family’s push to reduce road rage has been a helpful goal.
    — Michelle Hunter | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Hanging out in the left lane can trigger fellow drivers to the point of road rage.
    — Cari Shane, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Zilker Park is a nightmare and nobody wants pre-date road rage.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Some drivers that get an anxious horn smacking are apt to go into a form of road rage.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Officers at the shooting scene said the shooting might have been tied to road rage.
    — Jane Morice | [email protected], cleveland, 14 June 2020
  • Comments citing road rage started rolling in.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The incident was initially thought to be linked to road rage.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The suspect fired shots from a car in what police believe was a road rage incident.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Just this month a woman was killed in Tolleson due to a road rage incident.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Yet, most of us think of road rage as the colloquial term for any type of angry driving.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • One man was killed and police believe the shooting might stem from a road rage incident.
    — Austen Erblat, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The report said that road rage incidents are on the rise nationwide.
    — Abigail Celaya, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Prince was off-duty when he became embroiled in a road rage incident that led to the charges.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The shooting was the result of a road rage incident, police said.
    — Olivia Rose, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The chase was spurred by a road rage incident, according to Tavares.
    — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • At first glance, Jiang's murder had all the earmarks of a violent case of road rage.
    — Murray Weiss, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Read Next Texas 8-year-old shot in the head during road rage, Texas cops say.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Calls logged as reckless driving can turn out to have been road rage and may be missing from the data, or vice versa.
    — Rose Evans updated March 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The shooting was suspected to be the result of a road rage incident.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
  • He also was accused in a road rage incident earlier in the day.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 19 May 2026
  • Police learned that a 30-year-old man pulled up and shot at their sedan after a road rage incident.
    — Annasofia Scheve, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2026

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