How to Use road sign in a Sentence

road sign

noun
  • When a road sign says that headlights must be on.
    — Sacbee.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • At some point, a car or a truck flashes in the center and a road sign shows up on the periphery.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Unless the convict is holding a road sign, our firing squad might miss the entire body.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Each one–all four–features the Historic Route 66 road sign.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Highway 75 south road sign against a blue sky Florida.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The challenge is to recall whether the image was a car or a truck and then to click on the area where the road sign appeared.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Scott Brown’s car hit a road sign planted on the grass verge, flipped and rapidly caught fire after landing.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • The First Nations language of this region was displayed on a road sign.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The semi-truck jackknifed as a result and hit the Ram Sprinter, which was pushed into a road sign.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The semi-truck jackknifed as a result and hit the Ram Sprinter, which was pushed into a road sign.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ospreys near Wayzata, Minnesota, have claimed a road sign as their nesting site.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • The semi-truck then jackknifed as a result and collided with the Ram Sprinter, which was pushed into a road sign.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The premise of the exercise is for users to identify the correct vehicle and remember the location of the road sign.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Harden threw a road sign to the ground, walked unsteadily into the street and then back on the sidewalk, the BBC reports.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • How different this trip would have been in the pre-GPS era, when the obscured road sign at one intersection would likely have sent me off track.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2018
  • An image with the same message hanging on a bicycle road sign, which also depicted an image of a fist punching a bloodied pig, also recently appeared.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Officials investigating the wreck in Florida said Singh failed English and road sign tests.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Officials investigating the wreck in Florida said Singh failed English and road sign tests.
    — Greg Wehner , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Another image hanging on a bicycle road sign depicted a fist holding a smoking pistol to the head of someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood as blood squirts out of the figure's head.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • There was another ceremony that summer where Karen received the honorary road sign, which still hangs proudly in a corner in her house with some other Captain Herb artifacts.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The film is set in New Mexico, in the fictitious title town—population of two thousand four hundred and thirty-five, according to a road sign—where the election year sees the mayor also up for reëlection.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Features can vary by model but typically GM and Nissan include lane keep assistance, blind spot monitoring, rear seat alert, pedestrian detection, forward and rear collision avoidance, road sign detection, and pre-emergency braking.
    — Scotty Reiss, Parents, 24 Feb. 2026

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